Meet the world’s animals.

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• Blue-spotted Wood Dove Turtur afer

  

  The Blue-spotted Wood Dove is a small dove with blue spots on its wings. It lives along forest edges and streams, searching for seeds on the ground.

• Brown Boobook Ninox scutulata

  The Brown Boobook is a dark-plumaged owl that becomes active after dusk.

• Scaly-bellied Woodpecker Picus squamatus

  The Scaly-bellied Woodpecker has different head colors in adult males and females and a scale-like pattern on its belly. Its range and feeding records are presented for separate regions.

• Long-tailed rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus

  A thicket-loving bird with a long tail and pale wing-bars.

• Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Redstart moves between breeding and wintering areas. It uses high-elevation scrub and forest edges, and searches for food in the upper parts of trees.

• Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus

  A large reddish-brown raptor, it usually hunts birds alone in northern Australian forest, savanna, and waterside habitats.

• 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.

• Black-throated Antbird Myrmophylax atrothorax

  Male and female Black-throated Antbirds differ in throat and belly color. The male has a black throat and breast and forages in dense undergrowth near wetlands and streams.

• Brown-headed Parrot Poicephalus cryptoxanthus

  The Brown-headed Parrot is mainly green, with yellow underwings. Two subspecies are listed; one is paler and greener than the other.

• Cinereous Warbling Finch Microspingus cinereus

  The Cinereous Warbling Finch is a small bird of Brazil's central Cerrado. Its distribution is sparse and local, and field knowledge remains limited according to the species account.

• Perija Metaltail Metallura iracunda

  The Perija Metaltail is a small hummingbird restricted to the Perija Mountains on the Colombia–Venezuela border.

• Slender-billed Inezia Inezia tenuirostris

  This small flycatcher occurs in dry areas of northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses scrub, places with small trees, and mangrove borders, and often forages alone or in pairs.

• White-faced Quail-Dove Zentrygon albifacies

  The White-faced Quail-Dove occurs patchily in mountains from southern Mexico through northern Central America. It walks on the forest floor, and adults show a gray crown, a pale face, and chestnut upperparts.

• Least Boobook Ninox sumbaensis

  This small owl was described from Sumba, Indonesia. The original study recorded it in places where forest remained.

• 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-throated Canary Crithagra albogularis

  The White-throated Canary is a pale canary with little streaking, a white throat, and a greenish-yellow rump. It feeds on seeds and other foods in shrubland, semi-desert, and related habitats of southwestern Africa.

• Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca

  This black-and-white bird breeds only on Cyprus and migrates to Africa for winter.

• Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus

  The Black Hawk-Eagle is a large eagle of lowland tropical forest in the Americas. Adults are mostly black, with bold white checkering under the wings.

• White-browed Spinetail Hellmayrea gularis

  A high-Andean spinetail recorded from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It occurs in montane forest and dense understory, especially Chusquea bamboo.

• White-plumed Antbird Pithys albifrons

  The White-plumed Antbird follows army-ant columns while foraging in the lower forest understory of Amazonia. Adults have long white plumes along the face, and chestnut neck, underparts, and tail.

• Scarlet macaw Ara macao

  A parrot with vivid red, yellow and blue plumage and a large hooked bill.

• Blue-winged Mountain Tanager Anisognathus somptuosus

  A tanager of Andean cloud forests, marked by a yellow crown and underparts and blue edging on the wings. It ranges from Colombia to Bolivia and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi

  This tiny hummingbird is endemic to the Pacific coast of western Ecuador. A 2007–08 survey found 11 additional localities and 26 nests; the study also corrected female descriptions that had been based on misidentified juvenile males.

• Handsome Flycatcher Nephelomyias pulcher

  It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and forages in the midstory. The source describes two separated populations at the northern and southern ends of the range.