Meet the world’s animals.

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• Shy Ground Dove Pampusana stairi

  

  The Shy Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove of Polynesian islands. It searches for seeds, fruit, and insects on the ground and in the forest understory.

• Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus

  A large owl widespread in North America, recognized by its earlike feather tufts and yellow eyes. It uses forests, wetlands, grasslands, and even green spaces in towns.

• Rusty-necked Piculet Picumnus fuscus

  This small woodpecker inhabits riverine lowland forest in northeastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Males have reddish-orange tips on the crown feathers.

• Barred Wren-Warbler Calamonastes fasciolatus

  This small bird lives in semi-arid savanna in southern Africa. Fine barring and pale cheeks help identify it, and it sings a high trill from a tree top.

• Andean Slaty Thrush Turdus nigriceps

  Males are bluish grey and females brown; in the Peruvian Andes it forages on the ground at forest edges and openings

• Collared Grosbeak Mycerobas affinis

  The Collared Grosbeak is a large finch whose plumage differs between males and females. This account gives the Chinese part of its range described by the Kunming Institute of Zoology.

• White-browed Shama Copsychus luzoniensis

  The White-browed Shama is a Philippine forest bird. A male of the nominate subspecies was observed on Mount Makiling, Luzon; the account describes the species in low thickets and vines near the ground.

• Forest Buzzard Buteo trizonatus

  A buzzard of southern African forests. It watches for prey from a perch, then drops down to catch it.

• Zimmer's Woodcreeper Dendroplex kienerii

  A 2002 taxonomic study treated birds called Dendroplex necopinus as the same species as D. kienerii. Field records under the former name were mainly from tall seasonally flooded forest along Amazonian riverbanks and islands.

• Aripuana Antwren Herpsilochmus stotzi

  This antwren was described from the Aripuanã–Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil, where it occurs in campinarana forest on poor soils.

• Green-billed Malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis

  The Green-billed Malkoha is marked by a curved green bill and red bare skin around the eyes. It moves through woodland from tree to tree, often showing its long tail.

• Red-fronted Macaw Ara rubrogenys

  This large parrot has red on its forehead, shoulders, and thighs, with blue on its wings. It occurs in central Bolivia and uses dry woodland and thorn scrub.

• Emerald Tanager Tangara florida

  The Emerald Tanager searches for fruit in the canopy of humid montane forest and also finds small invertebrates in moss on branches.

• Kuhl's Lorikeet Vini kuhlii

  This small lorikeet is native to Rimatara. It is often recorded in plantations and around villages where flowers and fruit are plentiful, and feeds on nectar.

• Hoary Puffleg Haplophaedia lugens

  The Hoary Puffleg is a hummingbird of humid forests on the eastern Andes. It seeks nectar in the lower forest and along its edges.

• Chestnut-naped Francolin Pternistis castaneicollis

  A highland francolin of Ethiopia and Somalia, it has a red bill and legs, while neck and facial markings vary by subspecies.

• Masked Water Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta

  This small bird has a white head and a black stripe through the eye. It searches muddy river and pond edges for small arthropods.

• Freckled Duck Stictonetta naevosa

  Fine white and pale buff flecks cover the dark grey-brown body of this Australian duck. The male’s bill turns red during the breeding season.

• Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri

  The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.

• Dusky Eagle-Owl Ketupa coromanda

  The Dusky Eagle-Owl has grayish plumage, rounded ear tufts, and a pale facial disc. It is nocturnal and uses open woodland near water, where it nests in trees.

• Velasquez's Woodpecker Melanerpes santacruzi

  This woodpecker ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America and uses woodland as well as open, human-modified places.

• Bar-winged Prinia Prinia familiaris

  The Bar-winged Prinia has an olive back marked by white wing bars. It searches for insects in gardens, parks, and secondary growth on Sumatra, Java, and Bali.

• Sunda Thrush Zoothera andromedae

  The Sunda Thrush is a thrush with a scaly-looking pattern on its back. It occurs mainly on Indonesian islands and also in the Philippines, searching for food on the forest floor and in undergrowth.

• Black-headed Siskin Spinus notatus

  The Black-headed Siskin is a finch ranging from Mexico into northern Central America. Breeding males stand out for a black head and yellow belly.