Meet the world’s animals.

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• Atlantic Canary Serinus canaria

  

  This is the wild canary of the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. The profile covers the island species, not domestic canary breeds.

• La Sagra's Flycatcher Myiarchus sagrae

  This flycatcher is native to the western Caribbean islands. It has pale underparts and a thin bill. Records in Florida are treated as vagrants.

• Güldenstädt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus

  This redstart lives on rocky high mountains. An adult male stands out for its white crown, black throat and chest, and reddish-brown belly and tail.

• Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet Touit huetii

  The Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet is a small parrot of forests in northern South America and Trinidad, and it may move in flocks.

• Moluccan King Parrot Alisterus amboinensis

  This parrot lives in forests on Indonesian islands, including the Moluccas. The six subspecies differ in plumage.

• Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans

  The Pink-necked Green Pigeon eats fruits and buds from mature trees. In Singapore it is found in both wooded and urban areas.

• Barred Eagle-Owl Ketupa sumatrana

  A large owl of forests in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and nearby islands, it is marked by ear-like tufts and bars across its body.

• Chestnut-backed Antshrike Thamnophilus palliatus

  The Chestnut-backed Antshrike is recorded from southeastern Peru through Bolivia and Brazil. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Meyer's Goshawk Astur meyerianus

  Meyer's Goshawk is a forest hawk with black upperparts, a white underside, and fine bars on its flanks. Its legs and the base of its bill are yellow.

• Puerto Rican Woodpecker Melanerpes portoricensis

  This woodpecker is endemic to Puerto Rico. It has a black back, white forehead, and red throat and breast, and searches dead trunks and branches for insects.

• Blue-headed Hummingbird Riccordia bicolor

  Males have blue-violet on the head and throat while females have green upperparts and grey-white underparts; the species uses mountain wet forest on Dominica and Martinique.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.

• Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus

  The Western Tragopan is a pheasant that lives in forests of the northwestern Himalaya. Males and females differ greatly in plumage, and males display with calls and their appearance during breeding.

• Canvasback Aythya valisineria

  A diving duck that breeds on North American lakes and marshes. In winter it gathers on fresh and coastal waters to find aquatic plant roots and tubers.

• Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius

  It occurs in humid forests of Central America. In Costa Rica it uses the canopy, edges, and older secondary growth, sometimes in pairs or mixed flocks.

• Sao Tome Thrush Turdus olivaceofuscus

  The São Tomé Thrush lives in forests on São Tomé. It searches among leaf litter, where beetles, snails, worms, and fruit have been recorded in its diet.

• Pallas's Rosefinch Carpodacus roseus

  Pallas's Rosefinch is about 16–18 cm long. The sexes differ in plumage, and birds in forests from central Siberia to northern Mongolia eat plant seeds.

• Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

  In northwestern Argentina, the nominate subspecies is listed from Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán. It has a dark chestnut head, with cinnamon-colored upper tail coverts and underparts.

• Chestnut-winged Whistling-thrush Myophonus castaneus

  This whistling thrush is endemic to Sumatra. Adult males have blue heads, breasts, and shoulders, with chestnut on the rest of the upperparts, tail, and flanks. Observers report it near forest streams.

• Festive Amazon Amazona festiva

  The Festive Amazon is a parrot of the Amazon River basin and riverside regions of Colombia and Venezuela. Adults are green, with red on the back and rump.

• Flores Hanging-parrot Loriculus flosculus

  The Flores Hanging Parrot is a small green parrot. Males have a red mark on the throat, and the species eats fruit and nectar.

• Zoe's Imperial Pigeon Ducula zoeae

  Zoe's Imperial Pigeon has a light grey head and a pink neck and upper breast. It inhabits moist forests on New Guinea and larger nearby islands and eats almost entirely fruit.

• Tropical Screech-Owl Megascops choliba

  The Tropical Screech-Owl is widespread in South America and has several plumage morphs, including gray, brown, cinnamon and rufous. A Bolivian study detected its calls just after sunset and before dawn along forest edges.

• Slate-colored Antbird Myrmelastes schistaceus

  The Slate-colored Antbird forages in the understory of western Amazonian forest. Males are slaty grey with white dots forming wing bars; females are brown and rufous.