Meet the world’s animals.

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• Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus

  

  This African woodpecker uses forests and secondary growth and searches trees for ants, termites, and other invertebrates.

• Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus cervinigularis

  It occurs along the Caribbean slope from southern Mexico to north-western Panama. A study in Costa Rica found six nests in earth banks beside forest trails; each nest was at the end of a tunnel with a stick platform inside.

• Rhinomyias brunneatus

  This flycatcher searches for insects in forest undergrowth and along edges. It has brown upperparts, a pale eye-ring, a white throat, a pale brown breast and pink legs. Its breeding range is in southern China, with wintering areas in Southeast Asia. The pool uses Rhinomyias; the consulted account uses Cyornis brunneatus.

• Golden-mantled Racket-tail Prioniturus platurus

  The Golden-mantled Racket-tail is a parrot of eastern Indonesia's forests that visits fruiting trees to feed.

• Evening Grosbeak Hesperiphona vespertina

  The Evening Grosbeak is a stocky finch with a massive bill. Males are yellow and black, while females are mostly gray.

• Cuban Parakeet Psittacara euops

  The Cuban Parakeet is a yellow-green parrot native to Cuba. It lives in groups and nests in tree cavities or arboreal termite mounds.

• White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant

  The White-bellied Woodstar is common in montane forest on the eastern Andes and also occurs in humid montane forest on the western slope. Males have a conspicuous violet throat, while females have rufous sides to the breast and belly.

• Black-eared Cuckoo Chalcites osculans

  The Black-eared Cuckoo is a brood-parasitic cuckoo found widely across mainland Australia. Its breeding records are concentrated in the southern inland half of the continent.

• Serendib Scops Owl Otus thilohoffmanni

  This small owl occurs in lowland forest in Sri Lanka. It is active at night and difficult to see while roosting by day.

• Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus

  The Common Black Hawk is a dark raptor that waits for prey in wooded wetlands and along streams. It is rare in the southwestern United States and more common from Mexico southward.

• Sundaic Island Thrush Turdus javanicus

  This thrush occurs in mountains of Sumatra, Java, and northern Borneo. Its island subspecies vary in plumage; Clements separated the broad Island Thrush complex into multiple species.

• Orange-fronted Yellow Finch Sicalis columbiana

  This small finch occurs in northern South America. Orinoco field notes describe small flocks along pond and stream edges. The recorded female had olive-brown upperparts and a paler belly.

• Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus

  An antshrike with dark grey and black plumage in males and olive-brown plumage in females. It eats varied insects in South American lowland evergreen forest.

• Levaillant's Cisticola Cisticola tinniens

  In breeding plumage, an adult Levaillant’s Cisticola shows a rufous crown and a scaled-looking back. It searches for insects in wet grass and males sing during summer display flights.

• Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus rufigularis

  The Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant is a small bird with a buff throat, olive-green upperparts, and a pale belly. It lives in dry tropical and tropical montane forests and catches invertebrates in bushes.

• Yellow-vented Green Pigeon Treron seimundi

  The Yellow-vented Green Pigeon is notable for the adult male's white belly and yellow undertail. The park profile lists it in evergreen forest in central and south-central Vietnam and other parts of the region.

• Hartlaub's Duck Pteronetta hartlaubii

  Hartlaub's Duck has a cinnamon-red body with pale blue on the wings. The male has a white spot at the tip of the bill, and the species uses rivers, lakes, and streams in western and central equatorial Africa.

• Ferruginous Partridge Caloperdix oculeus

  This partridge is striking for its orange head and breast and black-and-white scaling on the back and sides. It forages on the ground in lowland and middle-elevation forests.

• Rufous-headed Woodpecker Celeus spectabilis

  This woodpecker often uses bamboo stands in western Amazonian lowland forest. One observation records it feeding in a non-bamboo tree.

• Northern Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes sanctithomae

  A large woodcreeper of humid forests from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern South America. It favors forest interiors but also occurs at edges and in mature secondary growth.

• Seychelles Magpie-Robin Copsychus sechellarum

  On Cousin Island, it forages on small animals exposed as Hawksbill Turtles dig their nests. It has also been seen feeding on turtle eggs.

• Chattering Lory Lorius garrulus

  The Chattering Lory has a red body and green wings. In Indonesia's North Maluku Islands, it lives in lowland and secondary forest.

• Olivaceous Siskin Spinus olivaceus

  A small finch with bright yellow areas, it lives in forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes. Males have a black hood.

• Crimson-fronted Parakeet Psittacara finschi

  The Crimson-fronted Parakeet is a Central American parakeet with a green body and red forehead. It eats fruit and flowers, travels in flocks, and gathers at communal roosts in the evening.