Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus

  

  The Sharp-shinned Hawk is a small raptor that uses its long tail and short wings to maneuver through forests. Birds breeding in northern North America migrate south in autumn.

• Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus

  A large owl widespread in North America, recognized by its earlike feather tufts and yellow eyes. It uses forests, wetlands, grasslands, and even green spaces in towns.

• 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.

• Grey-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hyogastrus

  The Grey-headed Fruit Dove combines green plumage with gray, claret, and yellow areas. It occurs in small groups in forest canopy and edges in the northern Moluccas.

• Pale-headed Woodpecker Gecinulus grantia

  The Pale-headed Woodpecker lives in bamboo and forest habitats. Males have chestnut upperparts and a reddish patch on the forecrown that females lack.

• Mouse-grey Flycatcher Myiophobus crypterythrus

  This small flycatcher ranges from southwestern Colombia through western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It is recorded in light woodland and shrubby openings.

• Vermilion Tanager Calochaetes coccineus

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It has a deep red body with a black facial mask, throat, upper breast, wings, and tail, and joins mixed flocks in mountain-forest canopies.

• Güldenstädt's Redstart Phoenicurus erythrogastrus

  This redstart lives on rocky high mountains. An adult male stands out for its white crown, black throat and chest, and reddish-brown belly and tail.

• Sooty-fronted Spinetail Synallaxis frontalis

  It has a dark forehead and chestnut crest, wings, and tail. In Brazil it uses low scrub in the Cerrado and other semi-open habitats, moving by hops near the ground while searching for invertebrates.

• Green Parakeet Psittacara holochlorus

  The Green Parakeet is mostly green and has a long, pointed tail. Within its natural range it uses tropical and subtropical woodlands, farmland, and plantations.

• Dull-mantled Antbird Sipia laemosticta

  This small antbird occurs in Costa Rica and Panama. It uses dense understory in cloud forest near streams and deep ravines. Males are dark grey and rufous; females are paler.

• Orange-throated Sunangel Heliangelus mavors

  Males have a throat that can glow orange in good light and a pale band across the breast. Females have a yellowish throat mottled with chestnut.

• Long-winged Harrier Circus buffoni

  The Long-winged Harrier searches for prey over wetlands and grasslands in South America. Plumage differs by sex, and birds occur in light and dark forms.

• Cuban Pygmy Owl Glaucidium siju

  The Cuban Pygmy Owl has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and two dark spots on the back of its head. It hunts by day as well as at night.

• Black Rosy Finch Leucosticte atrata

  The Black Rosy-Finch is a finch of the high mountains of western North America. It uses rocky high elevations for breeding and descends in winter.

• Sombre Pigeon Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa

  The Sombre Pigeon inhabits hill and mountain forests on Sulawesi, moving quietly in the interior understory alone or in pairs.

• Rufous-breasted Piculet Picumnus rufiventris

  This small piculet occurs in western Amazonia. A 2013 field account recorded foraging among bamboo and vines and an apparent recently fledged juvenile.

• Golden-browed Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix pulchella

  This chat-tyrant occurs in the Andes of Peru and western Bolivia. It uses humid montane forest and shrubby forest edges, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Lined Seedeater Sporophila lineola

  This small seedeater moves seasonally within South America. In Bolivia it is recorded in open places such as savannas, forest edges, fields, and towns. A study in southeastern Brazil found age-related plumage differences among breeding males.

• Pale-chinned Blue Flycatcher Cyornis poliogenys

  It is about 15–18 cm long. It uses evergreen forest, forest edges, secondary growth, and scrub and eats invertebrates. The page also lists sound records from Assam.

• Olrog's Cinclodes Cinclodes olrogi

  Olrog’s Cinclodes is a highland ovenbird found in central Argentina. It walks through rocky grassland and hills while searching for invertebrates on the ground.

• Maroon-fronted Parrot Rhynchopsitta terrisi

  This large parrot inhabits mountains of northeastern Mexico. It has a green body with a dark maroon forehead and wing edges, feeds mainly on pine seeds, and roosts in groups outside the breeding season. It may fly long distances to feeding areas.

• Rufous-faced Antbird Myrmelastes rufifacies

  The Rufous-faced Antbird occurs in Brazil south of the Amazon. Males and females have different plumage, and the species searches for invertebrates on the ground in moist forest.

• Peruvian Sheartail Thaumastura cora

  This hummingbird is recorded from the Pacific side of Peru and Ecuador to northern Chile. It uses coastal scrub and vegetation along seasonal river valleys; adult males have very long tail feathers.