Meet the world’s animals.

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• Javan Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus bartelsi

  

  This large raptor lives in forests on Java. Adults have a prominent crest and may soar above the canopy.

• Black-throated Flowerpiercer Diglossa brunneiventris

  This flowerpiercer lives in the high Andes. Disjunct populations occur in northern Colombia and farther south in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and their relationship has been studied.

• Temminck's Tragopan Tragopan temminckii

  Temminck’s Tragopan is a pheasant of mountain forests. Males show a blue face and spotted russet plumage, and display during courtship.

• Red-masked Parakeet Psittacara erythrogenys

  This parakeet is leaf green with a red head, a heavy white eye-ring and a pale bill. It is native to dry forests in western Peru and Ecuador and roosts communally in large groups.

• Chestnut Piculet Picumnus cinnamomeus

  This small woodpecker occurs in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses dry woodland, mangroves, and other dry scrubby habitats, and males and females differ in crown spotting.

• Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina

  This dove spends much of its time near the forest floor. Its blue-gray to bronzy head and white marks around the eye stand out in evergreen forest and nearby regrowth.

• Chinese White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus dubius

  This rosefinch occurs in China's highlands. Species data describe shrubland and semi-open habitat at high elevation; a historical adult-male account records a silvery forehead and throat and rosy cheeks.

• White-crested Spadebill Platyrinchus platyrhynchos

  This small flycatcher feeds in the understory of Amazonian forest. It is widespread but considered rare in Peru.

• Malay Whistling-thrush Myophonus robinsoni

  This dark thrush has a bright metallic-blue patch near the shoulder and appears along streams in moist hill forest.

• Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques

  The Japanese Scops Owl blends into woodland with bark-like mottled plumage and is active at night.

• Creamy-rumped Miner Geositta isabellina

  A ground-foraging bird of the high Andes. It searches the soil and spaces among rocks for arthropods.

• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster

  This hummingbird has a white belly. It uses coastal mangroves and forest edges and feeds on nectar.

• Rufescent Antshrike Thamnistes rufescens

  A scarce, difficult-to-see antshrike of cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It is brown and buff, with a stout hooked bill.

• Lesser Spotted Eagle Clanga pomarina

  The lesser spotted eagle searches from the air on long wings and catches small mammals and amphibians.

• Masked Flowerpiercer Diglossa cyanea

  This blue Andean bird has a large black mask around its red eyes. It lives in humid high-elevation forests and feeds on flower nectar, fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Chinese Grouse Tetrastes sewerzowi

  This grouse lives in mountain forests in China. Its brown body has a finely patterned belly, and it also eats buds and flowers in spring.

• 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.

• Levaillant's Woodpecker Picus vaillantii

  Levaillant's Woodpecker is a woodpecker of mountain woodlands in northwestern Africa. It is active by day and searches wooded areas for invertebrates.

• Rock pigeon Columba livia

  A pigeon that nests in rocky seaside crevices in the wild. Feral pigeons seen in towns are the same species, descended from domestic birds.

• White-lored Euphonia Euphonia chrysopasta

  This small finch is recorded in Bolivian forests. It is mostly found in pairs in the canopy and mainly eats fruit, especially mistletoe berries. Its bill is pale gray with a dark tip.

• Warbling Doradito Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris

  This small tyrant flycatcher moves in short flights through reeds and searches low vegetation for food. The Argentine national account records it from the north of the country south to Chubut.

• Saxicola ferreus

  Saxicola ferreus is a scarce winter visitor and passage migrant in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong bird account describes both sexes and their foraging in open shrubland and other cleared habitats.

• Tanimbar Boobook Ninox forbesi

  This owl occurs on Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands. It has buff to rufous-brown head and breast plumage and is recorded in lowland forests.

• Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes certhia

  A large woodcreeper with reddish-brown plumage and fine barring. It forages in mature forest and may appear near army-ant swarms.