Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor

  

  The Pied Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with black wing and tail tips. It gathers in island flocks and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Gray-breasted Francolin Pternistis rufopictus

  This ground-dwelling gamebird uses Tanzanian savannas and grassland. Its red bill, orange-red bare throat, and black-and-white facial pattern are conspicuous.

• Japanese pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus kizuki

  A small woodpecker with black-and-white markings, seen throughout the year in Japan from lowlands to low mountains.

• Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Brazil. It has an olive-green head and back and eats mostly insects in humid forests.

• Red-backed Sierra Finch Idiopsar dorsalis

  This finch inhabits high elevations from northern Chile through southwestern Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. It feeds on seeds on the ground in rocky areas and high-Andean grassland.

• Little Rock Thrush Monticola rufocinereus

  The Little Rock Thrush lives around rocky hills and wooded ravines. Its blue-gray throat extends onto the breast, and its tail is rufous.

• Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata

  This foliage-gleaner lives in moist mountain forest and tall secondary growth on the eastern Andes of Bolivia. Its buff eyebrow and streaked underside help identify it.

• 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.

• Silvered Antbird Sclateria naevia

  This antbird occurs in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Males are gray and white, while females are browner. It lives on or near the ground in flooded evergreen forest and eats insects and arachnids.

• Puerto Rican Emerald Riccordia maugaeus

  This small hummingbird is found only on Puerto Rico, mainly in mountain forests and shade-grown coffee plantations.

• Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus lanceolatus

  The Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle is a large raptor of Indonesian forest, centered on Sulawesi. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a densely barred belly.

• Tawny Fish Owl Ketupa flavipes

  This nocturnal owl has mottled tawny plumage and a white throat. In Taiwan it lives in low-elevation streamside forest and catches crabs, frogs, and other animals.

• African Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys alienus

  This finch occurs in Morocco’s mountains; a localized range in Algeria’s Aurès is reported in the literature. A male specimen from Glaoui had an ashy hindneck, a rosy-white throat, and a brown rump and upper-tail coverts.

• Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba delegorguei

  The Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon is an African pigeon with iridescent neck feathers. It eats fruit and may be seen in pairs.

• Gray Peacock-Pheasant Polyplectron bicalcaratum

  A pheasant whose male has rows of eye-like spots on its tail and wings. It lives in evergreen forests of South and Southeast Asia.

• Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera cailliautii

  The Green-backed Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of woodland and open forest in parts of eastern and central Africa. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates, including insects.

• Handsome Flycatcher Nephelomyias pulcher

  It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and forages in the midstory. The source describes two separated populations at the northern and southern ends of the range.

• Rufous-sided Warbling Finch Poospizopsis hypocondria

  This small bird lives on dry, high Andean slopes and in scrub. It has brownish-gray upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and rufous sides.

• African Grey Flycatcher Bradornis microrhynchus

  A small flycatcher of dry East African savanna and open woodland. It watches from exposed perches and makes short flights to catch insects.

• Tepui Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla roraimae

  This ovenbird lives in forests around the tepuis. Adults are unstreaked, with a pale throat and eyebrow contrasting with the darker body. It probes arboreal bromeliads and bamboo node sheaths and gleans branches and vines.

• Thick-billed Parrot Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

  The thick-billed parrot is a green parrot of high-elevation pine forests. It travels in flocks and eats pine seeds.

• Blackish Antbird Cercomacroides nigrescens

  The male and female have very different plumage. The species searches for insects in dense vines and shrubs at forest edges and in floodplain forest.

• Blue-headed Sapphire Chrysuronia grayi

  This hummingbird is recorded in dry areas of Colombia and Ecuador. A 2015 paper uses the older genus name Amazilia grayi and compares the male's tail and the female's underside with a related species.

• Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja

  The Harpy Eagle is a large bird of prey of tropical forests in Central and South America. Its facial feather disk and hunting among the trees are distinctive.