Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis

  

  The Red-necked Buzzard is a hawk with a chestnut head and neck and a reddish tail. It searches for prey from perches along woodland edges and in open areas.

• Chestnut-winged Hookbill Ancistrops strigilatus

  This furnariid lives in forests of the Amazon Basin. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus

  A mostly black bird with a broad crimson band across the throat and chest and a red rump. The sexes look alike. It ranges from southeastern Mexico to western Panama and uses wet forest.

• Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis chocolatinus

  The Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher occurs in the Ethiopian highlands and southern Eritrea. It catches insects from branches in forest and woodland.

• Helmeted Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus galeatus

  This small flycatcher has a black crest and yellowish olive upperparts. It forages in the understory of forests on nutrient-poor soils.

• Yellow-collared Lovebird Agapornis personatus

  The Yellow-collared Lovebird is a small parrot with a green body, dark mask, and bright yellow collar. In eastern Tanzania it uses grassland and savanna and eats seeds.

• Black Antbird Cercomacroides serva

  The Black Antbird lives along edges and in the understory of humid evergreen forests in the western Amazon. The male is black to dark grey with a white patch between the shoulders.

• Blood-eared Parakeet Pyrrhura hoematotis

  The Blood-eared Parakeet occurs in Venezuela's mountains. Much of its plumage is green, with reddish-brown feathers around the ears; neck and chest patterns differ by subspecies.

• Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens

  The Cardinal Woodpecker is a small woodpecker; males have a red area on the head. It uses wooded habitats.

• Calliope Hummingbird Selasphorus calliope

  Males have magenta streaks on the throat, while females and immature birds show peachy tones below. They breed in mountain meadows and streamside thickets and feed on nectar and small insects.

• Andaman Green Pigeon Treron chloropterus

  The Andaman Green Pigeon is a green pigeon whose male has a maroon back. It forages in the canopy at fruiting trees.

• Andean Goose Chloephaga melanoptera

  The Andean Goose has a white body set off by black wings and tail. It grazes near high-Andean wetlands on grasses and aquatic plants, moving to lower elevations in winter.

• Chestnut-backed Owlet Glaucidium castanotum

  Adults have a chestnut back and a prominent white throat patch. Black streaks mark the underside, and the eyes are bright yellow. It lives in small groups in wet forest in southwestern Sri Lanka and hunts or calls in daylight. It mainly eats insects such as beetles, and also takes mice, small birds, and reptiles.

• 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.

• Green-chinned Euphonia Euphonia chalybea

  This small bird has a thick bill. Males have a yellow band on the forehead, while females are olive above and grey below.

• African fish eagle Icthyophaga vocifer

  A large eagle of African waterways that catches fish near the surface.

• Grey-headed Spinetail Cranioleuca semicinerea

  This spinetail occurs in eastern Brazil. Its gray head and upperparts contrast with conspicuous rufous wings and tail.

• Chestnut-backed Tanager Stilpnia preciosa

  This tanager lives in forests and forest edges of southeastern South America, feeding on fruit and canopy insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Formosan Whistling-Thrush Myophonus insularis

  This thrush is found only in Taiwan and occurs near mountain streams. Its deep blue-purple plumage has a metallic sheen.

• Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes reguloides

  The Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant can raise its crown feathers and has black-and-white mottled plumage. A 2016–2017 urban-flora survey in Trujillo, northern Peru, recorded it searching algarrobo, acacia, and ponciana branches for food.

• Black-capped Lory Lorius lory

  The Black-capped Lory is a parrot that visits flowering trees in forests to feed on nectar and fruit. It moves in pairs or small groups.

• Pygmy Antwren Myrmotherula brachyura

  The Pygmy Antwren is widespread in Amazonia. Males have yellow underparts with black-and-white streaking above; females have buff-and-black streaking on the head and back. Birds forage along open forest edges and light gaps.

• Mitred Parakeet Psittacara mitratus

  The Mitred Parakeet is a green parakeet with a red face and a long tail. Its native range is on the eastern Andean foothills of southern South America, while escaped birds have formed local feral populations in parts of the United States.

• Cream-backed Woodpecker Campephilus leucopogon

  The Cream-backed Woodpecker inhabits open woodland and savanna in South America. It is marked by a black body, red head and pale triangular patch on the back.