Meet the world’s animals.

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• Metallic Pigeon Columba vitiensis

  

  The Metallic Pigeon has purple and green sheen on the crown, a yellow bill, and red skin around the eye. It searches for fruit and other foods in island forests and nearby areas.

• White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis

  Most of its body is white, while the upper wings and tail are black. By day it searches for prey from a forest-edge perch or while circling above the canopy.

• Blue-necked Tanager Stilpnia cyanicollis

  This brightly colored tanager lives in the Colombian Andes. It uses humid forest, edges, and wooded gardens, feeding on fruit and small invertebrates.

• Cassin's Kingbird Tyrannus vociferans

  Cassin's Kingbird has a gray head and breast, a white throat, and a yellow belly. It catches flying insects from perches in open country.

• Flying Steamer Duck Tachyeres patachonicus

  A grey duck with a white wing patch, it lives around Patagonian lakes and rivers, with different head and bill colors by sex

• 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.

• Brown-headed Parrot Poicephalus cryptoxanthus

  The Brown-headed Parrot is mainly green, with yellow underwings. Two subspecies are listed; one is paler and greener than the other.

• Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae

  This hummingbird is green overall and lacks white tail tips. Northern Bolivian records place subspecies P. t. leucorrhous in white-sand vegetation and along edges between savanna and low forest.

• Lewis' Woodpecker Melanerpes lewis

  Lewis's Woodpecker has a green-glossed black back and red belly. It catches insects in flight and may store acorns in tree crevices.

• Eye-ringed Thistletail Asthenes palpebralis

  This thistletail is reported as restricted to the eastern Andes of Peru’s Junín region. The pictured bird is of unknown sex; its broad white eye-ring and long graduated tail are conspicuous.

• Palawan Peacock Pheasant Polyplectron napoleonis

  The Palawan Peacock Pheasant lives in the rainforests of Palawan Island in the Philippines. Males have iridescent blue plumage, while females are brown and blend into the forest floor.

• Santa Marta Screech Owl Megascops gilesi

  This owl was recorded in humid forest at 1,800–2,500 m on the San Lorenzo ridge of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia.

• White-bellied Shortwing Myiomela major

  This shortwing occurs in the hills of southern India. Its account describes a slaty-blue back and breast, white belly, and rufous-brown flanks; birds are met singly or in pairs among undergrowth and small trees.

• Spot-winged Grosbeak Mycerobas melanozanthos

  This large bird lives in Himalayan mountain forests. Males are black and yellow, while females are mainly olive brown, so the sexes differ in plumage.

• Eastern Rosella Platycercus eximius

  This colorful parrot has a red head, white cheeks, and blue shoulders. It feeds on the ground in open woodland and grassland in southeastern Australia, eating seeds and fruits among other foods.

• White-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon leucometopia

  This dove has a purplish-blue sheen on the back and a white forehead. It walks on the leaf litter of humid montane forest in Hispaniola.

• Gray-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis

  The Gray-headed Kite is a raptor with a gray head and white underparts. It soars over forest and takes insects, reptiles, and small birds.

• Greenish Yellow Finch Sicalis olivascens

  It lives in Andean scrub and forages on the ground. The Peruvian account places it at 1,650–4,200 m, in pairs or family groups.

• Smoke-colored Pewee Contopus fumigatus

  This flycatcher is common in Peru's Andean montane forests. At forest edges and in semi-open places, it searches for food from exposed branch tips.

• Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina

  In breeding plumage, the male has an orange head and reddish bill; the female is brown. This diving duck feeds on aquatic plants and algae.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Pacific Parakeet Psittacara strenuus

  This parakeet ranges from Mexico to Nicaragua. It is mainly green, feeds chiefly on seeds and fruit, and uses forests and other green areas.

• Blue-bearded Helmetcrest Oxypogon cyanolaemus

  The Blue-bearded Helmetcrest was recorded in the highlands of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. During a 2015 survey, observers saw it feeding at flowering plants.

• Gabon Woodpecker Dendropicos gabonensis

  It has a green back and pale yellow underparts with dark spots. Males have red on the head, while females lack red on the head.