Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pink Pigeon Nesoenas mayeri

  

  Endemic to Mauritius, this island pigeon has soft pinkish-gray plumage and a red bill. It feeds on fruits and seeds in remaining native forest and helps disperse seeds.

• Yellow-billed Kite Milvus aegyptius

  The Yellow-billed Kite ranges across sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoros, extending to Egypt and southwestern Arabia.

• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird Eupetomena macroura

  This hummingbird has a long, forked tail. It visits flowering trees, and its blue-green plumage can flash in the light.

• Dull-mantled Antbird Sipia laemosticta

  This small antbird occurs in Costa Rica and Panama. It uses dense understory in cloud forest near streams and deep ravines. Males are dark grey and rufous; females are paler.

• Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus cervinigularis

  It occurs along the Caribbean slope from southern Mexico to north-western Panama. A study in Costa Rica found six nests in earth banks beside forest trails; each nest was at the end of a tunnel with a stick platform inside.

• Collared Hill Partridge Arborophila gingica

  A black collar edged with white stands out across the chest of this partridge. It lives in forests and bamboo scrub in southeastern China, eating seeds, fruits, and small animals.

• White-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes cactorum

  The male has a white forehead and yellow throat. This woodpecker lives in southern South American habitats such as dry forest and savanna; a study documented sap feeding in Argentina's Chaco.

• Luzon Lowand Scops Owl Otus megalotis

  The Luzon Lowland Scops Owl is a small owl on Luzon and nearby islands. It has large ear tufts and hunts insects at night.

• Slender-billed Inezia Inezia tenuirostris

  This small flycatcher occurs in dry areas of northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses scrub, places with small trees, and mangrove borders, and often forages alone or in pairs.

• Great Shortwing Heinrichia calligyna

  This flycatcher relative lives in montane forest on Sulawesi and uses dense growth near the forest floor. By day, it searches leaf litter and undergrowth for small prey.

• Southern Grosbeak-Canary Crithagra buchanani

  This canary occurs in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. This entry uses the genus Crithagra, although the species was formerly placed in Serinus. Its listed habitats include acacia scrub, woodland, and gardens.

• Yellow-crested Tanager Loriotus rufiventer

  Adult males have a black head, back and tail, with a partly hidden yellow crown crest. The chest and belly center is rusty with yellow edging. It feeds in mature-forest canopy and subcanopy, often in mixed flocks.

• Santa Marta Parakeet Pyrrhura viridicata

  This parakeet has a dark green body and an orange-red belly. In the wild it flies between forest patches in small flocks and eats fruit and seeds.

• Lined Quail-Dove Zentrygon linearis

  A ground-dwelling dove of foothill and mountain forests in Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad.

• Grey-headed Fish Eagle Icthyophaga ichthyaetus

  The Grey-headed Fish Eagle is a large eagle identified by the adult's gray head and brown breast. It lives in woodland near water and feeds mainly on fish.

• Blue-capped Puffleg Eriocnemis glaucopoides

  This resident hummingbird is recorded in Argentina and Bolivia, at elevations of 1,500–3,400 m.

• Chestnut-backed Antbird Poliocrania exsul

  The Chestnut-backed Antbird is described as an understory bird of lowland tropical forest from Honduras to Ecuador. The committee page describes five subspecies in two broad groups distinguished in part by white wing spots.

• Striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus obsoletus

  This woodcreeper lives in lowland forests of the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield. It searches for insects while climbing trunks and branches in forests near water and in flooded forests.

• Brown Quail Synoicus ypsilophorus

  The Brown Quail searches among ground vegetation and leaf litter for food. This account focuses on the population introduced to New Zealand.

• Buff-spotted Woodpecker Pardipicus nivosus

  This African woodpecker uses forests and secondary growth and searches trees for ants, termites, and other invertebrates.

• Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi

  The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl has a rounded head without ear-tufts and a brown facial disc edged in white. It is nocturnal and occurs in mountain forests from southern Mexico into Central America. Details of its diet and breeding remain poorly known.

• Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor

  The Cock-tailed Tyrant lives in South American grasslands. The male has a white face and underside, a black patch at the side of the breast, and a long tail; the female is brown with a short tail.

• Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva

  A small flycatcher with white patches on both sides of the tail base. Breeding males have orange-red on the throat and breast, but females and young birds look different.

• Pink-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus rodochroa

  This Himalayan rosefinch is raspberry-pink in males and mainly brown in females. It uses subalpine habitats in the breeding season and descends to foothills in winter.