Meet the world’s animals.

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• Diademed Amazon Amazona diadema

  

  Amazona diadema is a parrot of the Brazilian Amazon basin between the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimões.

• Blue-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena helianthea

  The Blue-throated Starfrontlet lives in mountain forest in Colombia's Eastern Andes. Males have an iridescent blue throat and green body; females are less vivid. It feeds on nectar and also catches insects.

• Reddish Scops Owl Otus rufescens

  The Reddish Scops Owl is a small owl of forests in Southeast Asia, including the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on insects.

• Eastern Imperial Eagle Aquila heliaca

  A large eagle of open country from eastern Europe across parts of central Asia.

• Peruvian Sierra Finch Phrygilus punensis

  This finch occurs in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It forages on the ground in sparse, dry scrub and may be seen in family groups or mixed flocks.

• Blackish-grey Antshrike Thamnophilus nigrocinereus

  Males are dark gray with a pale belly, while females have a dark crown and otherwise brown plumage. The cinereoniger subspecies in northeastern Colombia uses seasonally flooded savanna woodland and gallery forest.

• Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya

  This flycatcher inhabits dry, open country in western North America. Cinnamon tones wash across its underside, and it sallies from low perches to catch insects.

• Madagascar Blue Pigeon Alectroenas madagascariensis

  A pigeon of eastern Madagascar’s forests, it has a silvery blue-grey neck, dark blue body, and conspicuous red tail. It feeds in the canopy on fruit.

• Ladder-backed Woodpecker Dryobates scalaris

  This small woodpecker lives in dry places in the southwestern United States. Its back has black-and-white bars that resemble a ladder.

• Dark-bellied Cinclodes Cinclodes patagonicus

  This cinclodes occurs in Chile and Argentina. Its brown body has fine barring, a white eyebrow and throat, and a cinnamon wing bar that is easier to see in flight. It searches for small aquatic prey around rivers, wetlands, and mountain valleys.

• White-tailed Stonechat Saxicola leucurus

  This stonechat uses tall riverside grasslands; white areas on its tail are conspicuous in flight.

• Rufous-bellied Euphonia Euphonia rufiventris

  Bolivian records describe this bird eating mainly fruit among dense foliage in the canopy and subcanopy. The male and female also differ in some plumage features.

• Jandaya Parakeet Aratinga jandaya

  This parakeet occurs in northeastern Brazil. Adults have yellow heads and necks with orange breasts and bellies; it also uses forest edges and palm groves.

• Gorgeted Sunangel Heliangelus strophianus

  Adult males have a violet-red throat and a sharply defined white gorget. This small hummingbird lives at forest edges in the mountains of Ecuador and northern Peru and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Akun Eagle-Owl Ketupa leucosticta

  The Akun Eagle-Owl is a large owl with conspicuous white spots and a pale rufous face. It inhabits lowland forests in western and central Africa.

• Steller's sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus

  An eagle with a massive yellow bill. It breeds along the northern Sea of Okhotsk and winters in places including northern Japan.

• Cuban Grassquit Phonipara canora

  This bird forms small flocks in Cuban grassland and scrub. Males have black faces, females have grayish faces, and a yellow band runs from behind the eye down the sides of the neck to the chest.

• Planalto Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus pelzelni

  The Planalto Slaty Antshrike is an antbird of the lower forest layers in Brazil. A 2015 record from Sergipe described a nest at a forest edge where both sexes incubated and fed the chick.

• 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.

• Buru Green Pigeon Treron aromaticus

  The Buru Green Pigeon is a forest pigeon with green plumage. Males have a chestnut back, females a green back, and the species is endemic to Buru Island.

• Scaled Piculet Picumnus squamulatus

  A small woodpecker of Colombia and Venezuela, found in forest edges, secondary growth, and gallery forest.

• Moustached Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes falcirostris

  This woodcreeper is associated with patches of dry forest on rich soils in north-eastern Brazil. Its plumage varies among the study's regional specimen series rather than having one uniform brown coloration.

• Ultramarine Flycatcher Ficedula superciliaris

  The Ultramarine Flycatcher breeds in high country around the Himalayas and moves to lower southern regions for winter.

• Streaked Rosefinch Carpodacus rubicilloides

  A rosefinch of rocky, shrubby slopes above the Himalayan tree line, it feeds on seeds by day.