Meet the world’s animals.

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• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.

• Reiser's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias reiseri

  Reiser's Tyrannulet is recorded in Brazil and Paraguay. It has bright yellow-green upperparts and pale yellow underparts, and the field account reports it most often in gallery forest in Brazil's Cerrado.

• Black-and-orange Flycatcher Ficedula nigrorufa

  This flycatcher is endemic to India's Western Ghats. The male has a striking black-and-orange contrast.

• Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguineus

  This finch occurs in mountain regions from Türkiye through the Caucasus, Iran and northern Afghanistan to north-western India. It lives on rocky slopes and eats seeds.

• Gray-and-gold Tanager Poecilostreptus palmeri

  Adult Gray-and-gold Tanagers have pearly-grey and black-speckled plumage with gold across the chest. They feed on fruit, berries, and arthropods, foraging in pairs or small groups in the canopy.

• Caatinga Parakeet Eupsittula cactorum

  This small parakeet lives in dry parts of northeastern Brazil. In the wild it moves in flocks and eats fruit, seeds, flowers, and nectar.

• Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri

  The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.

• Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris

  This sparrowhawk occurs in fragmented parts of eastern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. In southern Africa, slate-grey upperparts and plain rufous underparts are distinctive.

• Black-eared Fairy Heliothryx auritus

  The Black-eared Fairy is a hummingbird with a long, mostly white tail, white underparts, and a dark line behind the eye. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid forest and feeds on nectar.

• Yapacana Antbird Aprositornis disjuncta

  A grey antbird with a conspicuous white patch between the shoulders. It searches for small prey in dense lowland forest undergrowth.

• Stout-billed Cinclodes Cinclodes excelsior

  The Stout-billed Cinclodes is a ground-dwelling bird of the high Andes. Its thick, down-curved bill and scaled pattern across the throat and upper chest are distinctive.

• Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber

  This woodpecker has a scarlet head and a black-and-white checkerboard back. It drills rows of shallow sap wells in trees and occurs in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast.

• Sao Tome Scops Owl Otus hartlaubi

  This small owl is endemic to São Tomé. Its rufous-brown plumage, white brows and chin, and dark belly streaks are distinctive.

• Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

  In northwestern Argentina, the nominate subspecies is listed from Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán. It has a dark chestnut head, with cinnamon-colored upper tail coverts and underparts.

• Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula subrubra

  The Kashmir Flycatcher is a small flycatcher that moves between breeding and wintering areas. Males have orange underparts; females show a fainter orange wash on the chest.

• Plain Mountain Finch Leucosticte nemoricola

  This finch lives in high mountains from the Himalayas across the Tibetan Plateau into central China. It forages for seeds on the ground and may form flocks outside the breeding season.

• Black-throated Saltator Saltatricula atricollis

  This tanager lives in open grassland and savanna in eastern Bolivia, including lightly wooded and seasonally flooded areas.

• Red-bellied Macaw Orthopsittaca manilatus

  This macaw has a green body, bare yellow facial skin, a bluish head, and a reddish-brown belly patch. It occurs in northern and central-western Brazil and Venezuela.

• Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyraceus

  The Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove has a gray-green head and breast set against a violet crown patch.

• Japanese sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis

  A small hawk that breeds in woods and even city parks in Japan.

• Grey-bellied Comet Taphrolesbia griseiventris

  A long-tailed hummingbird of the dry hills of north-central Peru. One female fed insects to nestlings, while another was building a nest beneath a mossy earth overhang.

• Esmeraldas Antbird Sipia nigricauda

  An antbird of the Pacific slope from western Colombia to western Ecuador. It searches low in the dark understorey of humid foothill forest.

• Greyish Miner Geositta maritima

  The Greyish Miner is recorded from western Peru to northern Chile. It walks through sparsely vegetated rocky desert in search of insects and seeds.

• Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus

  The Lesser Yellownape is an Asian woodpecker with green upperparts and a tufted yellow nape.