Meet the world’s animals.

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• Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta

  

  The Red-rumped Wheatear is marked by rufous on its rump and tail. It lives in stony semi-desert and saline plains.

• Grey-and-white Tyrannulet Pseudelaenia leucospodia

  A small tyrant flycatcher of northwestern Peru and Ecuador. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of deciduous forest and in tall scrub.

• Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Chrysuronia coeruleogularis

  This hummingbird occurs in Panama and northern Colombia. Males are metallic green with a purplish-blue throat; females are green above and whitish below. It visits flowers in scrub, dry woodland, and mangroves.

• Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca

  It has a gray body with a blue cast and blue-green tail and wing tips. It uses trees in open areas, parks, and cities and eats fruit, buds, nectar, and flying insects.

• Sulawesi Serpent Eagle Spilornis rufipectus

  This raptor ranges across Sulawesi and nearby islands. Males have a rufous chest and curled crest, and the species feeds mainly on snakes and lizards.

• Verreaux's Eagle-Owl Ketupa lactea

  Verreaux's Eagle-Owl is a large African owl with a white face edged in black and prominent ear tufts.

• Rock Bush Quail Perdicula argoondah

  The Rock Bush Quail is a small quail of dry scrub in the western Indian subcontinent. It forages in small groups and may take dust baths.

• Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi

  A woodpecker of montane forests from southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon east to the highlands of East Africa. Males have a red forecrown and nape and spotted or barred yellow-green underparts.

• Purple-throated Euphonia Euphonia chlorotica

  This 9–10 cm bird is active by day and feeds on fruit.

• Pink-spotted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus perlatus

  The Pink-spotted Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon of New Guinea and nearby islands. Pink spots on its wings stand out.

• Black-tailed Antbird Myrmoborus melanurus

  This antbird forages in dense thickets and scrub along lowland Amazonian rivers. Males are dark, while females are rufous-brown above; both sexes have a white throat, pale wing bars, and red irises.

• Jamaican Parakeet Eupsittula nana

  The Jamaican Parakeet is a small green parakeet with olive coloring on the throat and upper breast. This account focuses on the Jamaican native form and on the habitat and food described for the species.

• Scalloped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes falcinellus

  This woodcreeper searches along tree trunks in humid forest. It has a rufous back, pale eyebrow, and finely scalloped belly. It is associated with the Atlantic Forest, where one observed pair took turns incubating its eggs.

• Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea

  The Ferruginous Flycatcher has a gray head, orange-brown body, and pale ring around the eye. It perches at mid-height in montane forest openings, often near running water, and sallies out to catch insects.

• Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii

  It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.

• Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica

  This hummingbird occurs in separate areas from Central America into northwestern South America. Males have violet or green crowns and backs, while females have grey throats and breasts; the birds feed on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Monte Yellow Finch Sicalis mendozae

  This finch lives in the dry Monte Desert of western Argentina. Breeding males are bright yellow and lack olive tones on the throat and breast.

• Changeable Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus

  The Changeable Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor with pale and dark color morphs. The distribution and resident records cited here refer only to the documented localities.

• African Wood Owl Strix woodfordii

  The African Wood Owl lives in forests and woodlands across sub-Saharan Africa. It becomes active after dark and hunts from low perches.

• Blood Pheasant Ithaginis cruentus

  The Blood Pheasant is a plump, short-tailed pheasant whose plumage ranges from grey-olive to bright crimson. It searches for food in groups during the day.

• Fire-bellied Woodpecker Chloropicus pyrrhogaster

  This woodpecker lives in lowland forests of West Africa. Its account gives a length of about 24 cm, but the plumage description available here is for males only.

• Hooded Siskin Spinus magellanicus

  Male Hooded Siskins are conspicuous for their black caps and yellow-green bodies. They feed on small seeds from grasses and shrubs and form flocks.

• Rufescent Imperial Pigeon Ducula chalconota

  The Rufescent Imperial Pigeon has glossy green upperparts and a chestnut-red belly. It feeds on fruit in the mountain forests of New Guinea.

• Hairy-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta

  This antbird lives in the understory of Amazonian terra firme forest. The bare eye-ring and crest color vary among regions.