Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-breasted Parakeet Pyrrhura albipectus

  

  This small parakeet was studied in montane forests of southern Ecuador. Flocks use fruiting trees.

• Andean Emerald Uranomitra franciae

  This hummingbird occurs in Colombia's Andes, using montane forest and edges as well as flower-rich secondary growth and gardens.

• 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.

• African Harrier-Hawk Polyboroides typus

  The African Harrier-Hawk is a sub-Saharan raptor that uses unusually flexible legs to reach prey in holes and nests.

• Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea

  This small finch has a heavy bill. The Peru species account records it in riverside grass and overgrown fallow fields; a specialist account describes it as feeding on seeds.

• Ochre-rumped Antbird Drymophila ochropyga

  An antbird of humid forest in Brazil. Males and females differ in head and breast markings.

• Gray-capped Flycatcher Myiozetetes granadensis

  The Gray-capped Flycatcher has a bushy gray crown and bright yellow underparts. It forages at forest edges and in semi-open habitat and is widespread in Amazonia.

• Red-naped Fruit Dove Ptilinopus dohertyi

  The Red-naped Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon marked by a red patch on the back of its neck. It forages in the canopy and middle storey of Sumba's forests and prefers primary forest at higher elevations.

• Red-necked Woodpecker Campephilus rubricollis

  The Red-necked Woodpecker has a red neck and chest and a rufous belly. In the Bolivian forests covered by the source, it occurs alone or in loose pairs and uses several forest levels.

• Striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus obsoletus

  This woodcreeper lives in lowland forests of the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield. It searches for insects while climbing trunks and branches in forests near water and in flooded forests.

• Congo Moor Chat Myrmecocichla tholloni

  A field-guide account describes a dark brown bird with pale areas on the face, throat, upper breast and lower belly, plus a white wing patch. A Congo reserve survey found it common in open grassland.

• Ankober Serin Crithagra ankoberensis

  The Ankober Serin is a small bird of rocky slopes and escarpments in the Ethiopian highlands. It eats grass and herb seeds and can forage in flocks of several dozen.

• Red-necked Amazon Amazona arausiaca

  The Red-necked Amazon is a large green parrot with a purple-blue face and red throat. It is found only on Dominica, where it feeds on fruit and seeds in mountain rainforest canopy.

• Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae

  The Bee Hummingbird is described as the world's smallest bird. Males have iridescent throat feathers, and the birds visit flowers for nectar in Cuba.

• Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques

  The Japanese Scops Owl blends into woodland with bark-like mottled plumage and is active at night.

• Black-mantled Goshawk Tachyspiza melanochlamys

  The Black-mantled Goshawk is a raptor of New Guinea's mountain forests. Adults show a strong contrast between dark upperparts and rufous underparts.

• Thick-billed Saltator Saltator maxillosus

  It has a yellow bill base and a white eyebrow. The source account lists Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina; an Argentina study reports records in secondary and regenerating forests in Misiones Province.

• Fringe-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena atra

  Pyriglena atra is an antbird of coastal forest in northeastern Brazil. It has red eyes; males are black, while females are mainly reddish brown. It forages in dense lower vegetation along forest edges.

• Jelski's Black Tyrant Knipolegus signatus

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded on the eastern Andean slope of Peru, foraging along humid montane forest edges and in scrub at 1,800–2,700 m.

• Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques

  The Western Bronze-naped Pigeon inhabits forests in tropical Africa. It feeds on fruit and uses habitats including riparian evergreen forest.

• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• White-striped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes leucogaster

  A Mexican woodcreeper. The Sonora subspecies was described with grayer wing coverts; the species account lists pine and tropical deciduous forests among its habitats.

• Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata

  This bird lives in palm-rich woodland and scrub in eastern and southern Africa. Its pale throat and breast contrast with a narrow black band at the front of the neck.

• Blanford's Rosefinch Agraphospiza rubescens

  This rosefinch lives in mountain areas from south-eastern Tibet and north-western Yunnan to parts of central China. Males are crimson, while females are mainly brown.