Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indian Spotted Eagle Clanga hastata

  

  The Indian Spotted Eagle is a raptor of lowland South Asia. It nests in trees or groves within cultivated areas and gardens; in one study in northwest India, most prey delivered to nests were rodents.

• Smoky-brown Woodpecker Leuconotopicus fumigatus

  A small woodpecker described from Costa Rica's mountain forests. Its brownish body has a small red crown-to-nape patch in males.

• Black-thighed Puffleg Eriocnemis derbyi

  The Black-thighed Puffleg is an Andean hummingbird with metallic green and bronze plumage. The sexes differ in their leg feathers and underparts, and detailed breeding records remain limited.

• Plain-tailed Warbling Finch Microspingus alticola

  This small bird is restricted to a limited part of the northern Peruvian Andes. It searches for food in Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub.

• Brown Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon mantchuricum

  The Brown-eared Pheasant is a large pheasant of mountain forests in northeastern China. It eats roots, bulbs and other plant matter.

• Lake Duck Oxyura vittata

  The Lake Duck is a small diving duck of southern South America. It is sometimes seen holding its tail upright as it swims.

• Blackish Cinclodes Cinclodes antarcticus

  The Falkland Islands nominate form of the Blackish Cinclodes is dark brown with a paler, speckled throat. On rat-free islands it forages along the coast and may follow people.

• Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul

  This thrush inhabits forests from the Himalayas to northern Indochina. Males are black with grey wing panels; females are olive-brown with rufous on the wings.

• Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris

  It occurs in Idaho's South Hills and Albion Mountains, using older lodgepole pine forests.

• Serra do Mar Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus difficilis

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits coastal mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Olive-green upperparts, gray underparts, and white eye markings help identify it.

• Chat Flycatcher Bradornis infuscatus

  This flycatcher is common in dry savannas and scrublands of southern Africa. It drops from a low perch to catch insects and other prey on the ground.

• Dusky Parrot Pionus fuscus

  The Dusky Parrot is a northern South American parrot with a slate-blue head and purple-tinged plumage that lives in humid forests.

• Plum-faced Lorikeet Oreopsittacus arfaki

  This small lorikeet lives in the mountains of New Guinea. It feeds on nectar, flowers, and fruit in the canopy and mid-storey, often in pairs or small flocks.

• Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens

  The Mourning Collared Dove is an African dove that lives in forests and gardens. It is distinct from North America’s Mourning Dove despite the similar English name.

• Mayotte Scops Owl Otus mayottensis

  The Mayotte Scops Owl is found only on Mayotte. It occurs in grey, brown, and rufous plumage morphs and has yellow eyes.

• Parker's Antbird Cercomacroides parkeri

  A Colombian antbird of forest understory, with gray males and brown-and-cinnamon females.

• Papuan Eagle Harpyopsis novaeguineae

  A large eagle of New Guinea’s forests, it hunts arboreal cuscuses and other animals.

• Antillean Piculet Nesoctites micromegas

  This small piculet lives on Hispaniola. Its yellow crown and the streaked pale underside are distinctive.

• Tepui Goldenthroat Polytmus milleri

  The Tepui Goldenthroat is a hummingbird of tepuis in southern Venezuela and nearby areas, using cloud-forest edges and scrub at about 1,300–2,200 m.

• Bay-chested Warbling Finch Castanozoster thoracicus

  It has a bluish-gray head and back with a broad rufous band along the flanks. It lives along high-elevation forest edges in southeastern Brazil.

• Ceylon Spurfowl Galloperdix bicalcarata

  The Ceylon Spurfowl is a hard-to-see bird of Sri Lankan forests. Males and females have different plumage, and the female incubates the eggs in a ground nest.

• Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris

  The Tundra Bean Goose breeds in northern Siberia and winters in Europe. The race recorded in the UK in winter is rossicus.

• Olivaceous Woodcreeper Sittasomus griseicapillus

  This woodcreeper occurs in Bolivia's forests. Its short, straight bill and unstreaked grey or olive body help identify it; it searches trunks and branches for insects.

• Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus

  Adult males have a white breast patch, females a creamy one, and both show silvery panels on the wings.