Meet the world’s animals.
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- Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator
Photo: Jyrki Salmi from Finland · CC BY-SA 2.0 The Pine Grosbeak is a large bird with a thick bill. Males are reddish, while females and young birds are mostly gray; it eats buds, seeds, and fruit.
- Seychelles Magpie-Robin Copsychus sechellarum
On Cousin Island, it forages on small animals exposed as Hawksbill Turtles dig their nests. It has also been seen feeding on turtle eggs.
- Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis
A raptor with a long crest and white wing markings. It hunts small mammals in open country with trees.
- Speckled Spinetail Thripophaga gutturata
The Speckled Spinetail lives in riverside and lowland forests on the Amazonian side of the Andes. It is spotted below and is reported to eat mainly spiders and cockroaches.
- Sooretama Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus ambiguus
This antbird occurs mainly near the coast of southeastern Brazil. Males are gray and black, while females are brown-toned; the species searches for insects along forest edges and in coastal woodland.
- Dusky-headed Parakeet Aratinga weddellii
The Dusky-headed Parakeet is a green parrot with a grey head and white eye-ring. It uses forest edges and other partly open habitats in the western Amazon Basin.
- Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis
This seed-eating bird is endemic to Barbados, where it is found in grassy areas and forests.
- Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata
This hummingbird is recorded in Argentina's humid scrub and forests. The local account describes a fork-tailed, vivid male and a greener-backed, gray-bellied female.
- Hazel Grouse Tetrastes bonasia
In Finland, Hazel Grouse live in coniferous forests and eat buds, young shoots, and berries.
- Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum
The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny flycatcher, about 9–10 cm long. It has a yellow stripe behind the eye, a black head, olive upperparts, and black wings.
- Tolima Dove Leptotila conoveri
The Tolima Dove lives in the Colombian Andes. Its head is greyish, and it occurs in humid montane forest and along forest edges.
- Hoy's Screech Owl Megascops hoyi
This owl occurs in the mountains of southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It has brown, gray, and red color morphs; the brown morph is described with pale eyebrows and bold cross-hatched belly markings.
- Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus
The Hairy Woodpecker is a North American woodpecker that searches for insects while moving along tree trunks.
- Purple Finch Haemorhous purpureus
The Purple Finch is a finch of North American forests. It cracks seeds with its large bill and often sings from high in the trees.
- White-bellied Redstart Luscinia phaenicuroides
The White-bellied Redstart has dark blue males with a white lower belly, while females are mainly brown. In Nepal, it is recorded often in summer and rarely in lowlands in winter.
- Southern Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus fasciolatus
A forest snake-eagle of coastal East and southeastern Africa. Its grayish face and three white bars on a relatively long tail are useful identification marks.
- Streak-backed Canastero Asthenes wyatti
This canastero lives in high Andean grassland. It has broad dark streaks on its back and rufous outer tail feathers, and forages among bunchgrass, scattered shrubs and rocks.
- Great Antshrike Taraba major
Male and female Great Antshrikes have different plumage: males are black above, while females are rufous-brown above. They hide in humid lowland undergrowth and are often found in pairs.
- African Orange-bellied Parrot Poicephalus rufiventris
The African Orange-bellied Parrot has an orange-red belly in males and a brown-grey abdomen in females. It eats fruits and seeds in dry scrub and acacia woodlands.
- Blue-and-yellow Tanager Rauenia bonariensis
This tanager uses scrub and forest edges in South America. The PeruAves account reports solitary or paired foraging and describes several different Peruvian habitats.
- Straight-billed Hermit Phaethornis bourcieri
A hummingbird of the Amazon lowlands that uses forest undergrowth and feeds on nectar.
- Buff-throated Partridge Tetraophasis szechenyii
The Buff-throated Partridge is a high-mountain pheasant relative in which males and females have similar plumage. A study in western Sichuan found that its preferred woodland changed by season.
- Black-crowned Monjita Neoxolmis coronatus
The Black-crowned Monjita is recorded in Argentina. Its black-and-white head and underside stand out; it often sits alone in an exposed place while searching for food.
- Barking Imperial Pigeon Ducula latrans
This large pigeon lives in Fiji's forests. Its gray head and breast contrast with a reddish-brown belly. It eats fruit and uses the forest canopy.