Meet the world’s animals.
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- Striated Antbird Drymophila devillei
Photo: Jon Irvine · CC BY-SA 2.0 This antbird occurs mainly in southeastern Peru, and also in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador. It uses the forest understory, often in stands of Guadua bamboo.
- Yellow-naped Amazon Amazona auropalliata
The Yellow-naped Amazon is a parrot whose green feathers blend into forest foliage as it flies and feeds in flocks.
- Cinnamon Warbling Finch Poospiza ornata
This small finch has a gray face and back, a chestnut patch on the mid-back, and cinnamon tones on its eyebrow and underparts. It breeds in Argentina’s Monte Desert and moves north-east in winter.
- Black Jacobin Florisuga fusca
The Black Jacobin is a hummingbird with mostly black plumage, bronzy-green back and wing coverts, and a white tail. It feeds mainly on nectar but also takes insects, living in woodland and gardens from eastern and southeastern Brazil into neighboring countries.
- Painted Bush Quail Perdicula erythrorhyncha
The Painted Bush Quail lives in grasslands of the Indian Peninsula. Males have a white eyebrow and throat, while the red bill and legs are conspicuous field marks. Small groups may forage in the morning and evening.
- Buff-breasted Flycatcher Empidonax fulvifrons
A small flycatcher with a warm buff chest that launches from a perch to catch insects in the air.
- Tanimbar Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia timorlaoensis
A large, long-tailed dove restricted to the Tanimbar Islands. It uses lowland forest and woodland; males are boldly barred above and below.
- Costa Rican Pygmy Owl Glaucidium costaricanum
The Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl occurs in brown and rufous morphs. It waits for prey in the canopy and at edges of wet mountain forest and hunts mainly by day.
- Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus
The Cream-colored Woodpecker lives in Amazonian floodplain forest. The sexes look similar, but the male has a red malar stripe.
- Atlantic Canary Serinus canaria
This is the wild canary of the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. The profile covers the island species, not domestic canary breeds.
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis fischeri
This flycatcher lives in East African mountain forests and their edges. Active by day, it catches small invertebrates in short aerial sallies.
- Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax
An eagle widespread across sub-Saharan Africa. Its plumage varies, and it may scavenge or take food from other birds.
- Ceara Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus atlanticus
A Ceará state publication records the woodcreeper in humid mountain forest and says it climbs trunks to search bark for arthropods. It lists Ceará as well as the neighboring states of Paraíba and Pernambuco.
- Xingu Scale-backed Antbird Willisornis vidua
The Xingu Scale-backed Antbird is an antbird of lowland forest in the Brazilian Amazon east of the Xingu River.
- Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus
A green-and-gray parakeet native to South America. It builds communal stick nests in trees and on poles, where groups live together.
- Tamarugo Conebill Conirostrum tamarugense
The Tamarugo Conebill occurs in tamarugo woodland and other habitats in northern Chile; records also show movement into southern Peru. The male has a reddish-brown eyebrow and throat, while these colors are paler in the female.
- Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps
The Rufous-capped Thornbill is a small hummingbird of mountain regions from Colombia to Bolivia. Males have dark green upperparts and reddish-green underparts and feed on nectar and insects by woodland edges.
- Philby's Partridge Alectoris philbyi
Philby's Partridge has a red bill and legs and black-and-white bars on its flanks.
- Rufous-webbed Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus rufipennis
The body is gray, with a pale center to the belly and pale undertail coverts. Rufous parts of the wings and tail show clearly in flight. It forages in open scrub and grassland in the high Andes.
- Red-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dohertyi
The Red-naped Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon marked by a red patch on the back of its neck. It forages in the canopy and middle storey of Sumba's forests and prefers primary forest at higher elevations.
- Wallace's Scops Owl Otus silvicola
A small owl of forests on Flores and Sumbawa. Its gray-brown body has ear tufts.
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
The Red-bellied Woodpecker has a boldly barred back and red on the head. It is found in forests of eastern North America, where it searches along trunks and branches.
- Thick-billed Siskin Spinus crassirostris
The Thick-billed Siskin is a small high-Andean bird with a very broad-based bill. Males have black heads, while females have grey heads; both have yellow rumps.
- Red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus
A bird of shaded forest undergrowth that also visits lowlands in autumn and winter.