Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spinifex Pigeon Geophaps plumifera

  

  The Spinifex Pigeon's belly ranges from reddish-brown to white across its range. It uses rocky places near water and eats seeds of grasses and other plants.

• Grey Hawk Buteo plagiatus

  It is a hawk found from the southern United States through Mexico and Central America. In the southern United States, it uses forests along rivers.

• Torrent Tyrannulet Serpophaga cinerea

  The Torrent Tyrannulet is a small tyrant flycatcher recorded along Andean streams and rivers. The El Oro guide gives an elevation range of 700–3,100 m.

• Cinereous Finch Piezorina cinerea

  Cinereous Finch is a finch about 16 cm long. The specialist species page lists dry scrub and dry woodland as habitat and classifies its diet as omnivorous. The same page lists several song and call recordings from Peru.

• European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola

  In Britain, European Stonechats are small birds that perch on low bushes. Males and females differ in head and breast color.

• Yungas Pygmy Owl Glaucidium bolivianum

  The Yungas Pygmy Owl lives in humid mountain forest on the eastern Andes and has eye-like markings on the back of its head.

• Amethyst Woodstar Calliphlox amethystina

  The Amethyst Woodstar is a small hummingbird recorded widely in South America. A male’s throat can be iridescent purple in breeding plumage and much duller outside that period.

• Pectoral Antwren Herpsilochmus pectoralis

  The Pectoral Antwren occurs in northeastern Brazil. Males have a black-and-gray pattern, a white eyebrow and a black breast patch; nests have been recorded in relatively open coastal forest.

• Hoary-throated Spinetail Synallaxis kollari

  This spinetail is known from very few records in Roraima, at the northern end of Brazil. Its ecology is poorly documented, so the observations cannot be treated as a complete account of its behavior.

• Scaly-headed Parrot Pionus maximiliani

  This parrot occurs in central South America. Gray, finely edged feathers mark its head, and it uses forests and dry woodland while feeding on fruits and seeds.

• Robust Woodpecker Campephilus robustus

  This large woodpecker occurs in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It uses humid forests, including Araucaria forest, and males and females differ in cheek markings.

• Dark-breasted Rosefinch Procarduelis nipalensis

  The Dark-breasted Rosefinch has dark pink males with a pale throat and eyebrow. In Thimphu Valley it searches the ground for food in mountain forests and rocky sites.

• Sula Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena sulaensis

  Sula Cuckoo-Dove is a forest dove of the Sula and Banggai Islands. Adults show a conspicuous white face and red eye-ring.

• Madagascar Serpent Eagle Eutriorchis astur

  The Madagascar Serpent Eagle is a bird of prey about 66 cm long. It is active by day in forests, and northeastern Madagascar is part of its native range.

• Sharp-tailed Grass Tyrant Culicivora caudacuta

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the grasslands of the Cerrado, Pampa, and Chaco in South America.

• Gold-ringed Tanager Bangsia aureocincta

  The Gold-ringed Tanager is restricted to the western Colombian Andes. In a Montezuma survey, most records were above 1,850 m and at forest edges, with many birds foraging alone. Nest information comes from a small number of observations.

• Swynnerton's Robin Swynnertonia swynnertoni

  Swynnerton's Robin has a blue-grey back and bright orange breast. It searches for insects on the forest floor, tossing aside leaf litter as it forages.

• Dusky Eagle-Owl Ketupa coromanda

  The Dusky Eagle-Owl has grayish plumage, rounded ear tufts, and a pale facial disc. It is nocturnal and uses open woodland near water, where it nests in trees.

• Mangrove Hummingbird Amazilia boucardi

  The Mangrove Hummingbird is endemic to Costa Rica and mainly lives in Pacific-coast mangroves, especially where Pelliciera rhizophorae is abundant.

• Black-chinned Antbird Hypocnemoides melanopogon

  This antbird lives in lowland areas north of the Amazon and Marañón rivers and searches for food in waterside shrubs and overhanging vegetation. Males show gray and black plumage; females have a paler belly center.

• Red-billed Woodcreeper Hylexetastes perrotii

  This woodcreeper inhabits moist lowland forest in South America. It searches trunks and branches for arthropods.

• Brown-hooded Parrot Pyrilia haematotis

  The Brown-hooded Parrot is a medium-sized parrot that feeds on fruit in the canopy of humid tropical forest. Costa Rican observations describe pairs and small flocks.

• Helmeted Woodpecker Celeus galeatus

  The Helmeted Woodpecker lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America. A study reports that its plumage resembles that of a larger, co-occurring woodpecker, and tracked birds used cavities in large trees as roosts.

• Hawaii Creeper Loxops mana

  The Hawaii Creeper searches for small invertebrates in wet ʻōhiʻa and koa forest. A 2015 state plan describes four separated populations above 1,500 m on Hawaiʻi Island.