Meet the world’s animals.
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- Neblina Metaltail Metallura odomae
Photo: Thibaud Aronson · (c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA 4.0 This small hummingbird occurs in the highlands of northern Peru and southern Ecuador.
- Cinnamon-headed Green Pigeon Treron fulvicollis
The male is a green pigeon with an orange-rufous head and maroon wings, and it eats fruit. It lives in coastal forest and mangroves of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.
- Oriental scops owl Otus sunia
A small owl that breeds in deep forest and hunts insects from dusk into the night.
- Golden-rumped Euphonia Euphonia cyanocephala
The male has a blue head and back with a golden rump. The Peru species account associates the bird with semi-deciduous and humid montane forest, including places with mistletoes.
- Spanish Imperial Eagle Aquila adalberti
The Spanish Imperial Eagle occurs in southwestern Iberia. At Monfragüe National Park in Spain, it is described as feeding mainly on rabbits and nesting in large trees.
- Streak-backed Canastero Asthenes wyatti
This canastero lives in high Andean grassland. It has broad dark streaks on its back and rufous outer tail feathers, and forages among bunchgrass, scattered shrubs and rocks.
- Citron-headed Yellow Finch Sicalis luteocephala
Citron-headed Yellow Finch is a small finch described as nearly endemic to Bolivia. The forecrown, sides of the face, throat, and central belly are bright yellow, contrasting with gray upperparts and flanks. The account records dry scrub, open woodland, and holes in ravine banks.
- Philippine Magpie-Robin Copsychus mindanensis
The Philippine Magpie-Robin is endemic to the Philippines. It has a white belly and all-black tail and also lives in open forest, second growth, farmland, gardens, and scrub.
- Spectacled Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus orbitalis
This small flycatcher uses the upper levels of humid Andean forest. A pale eye-ring and yellow wing-bars are useful identification marks.
- Streak-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus striaticeps
This antvireo ranges from southeastern Honduras to Costa Rica. It is recorded mainly in evergreen forest on the Caribbean slope of Central America; the AOS checklist does not accept records from western Panama.
- Black-billed Amazon Amazona agilis
The Black-billed Amazon is a Jamaica-endemic parrot whose red wing feathers stand out against its green body. It gathers in flocks in the forest canopy and eats fruits and seeds.
- Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster
This large woodpecker has black upperparts and a red crest, rump, and underside. It chisels into wood for beetle larvae.
- White-bellied Emerald Chlorestes candida
The White-bellied Emerald moves quickly among leaves, flowers and forest clearings in Guatemala’s Laguna del Tigre National Park. The local biological station also notes its role in pollination.
- Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
The Common Bronzewing is a large pigeon widespread in Australia. It often searches for food on the ground and has bronze-colored iridescence on its wings.
- Luzon Lowand Scops Owl Otus megalotis
The Luzon Lowland Scops Owl is a small owl on Luzon and nearby islands. It has large ear tufts and hunts insects at night.
- Oahu Amakihi Chlorodrepanis flava
This Hawaiian honeycreeper occurs only on Oahu. It uses native and non-native forest as well as lowland yards and parks, and feeds on nectar, insects, and fruit.
- Grey-headed Goshawk Tachyspiza poliocephala
The Grey-headed Goshawk has a grey adult form and a much darker form. It hunts mainly lizards from a perch and occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.
- Rufous-breasted Leaftosser Sclerurus scansor
The Rufous-breasted Leaftosser lives in South American forests and searches leaf litter for small invertebrates. It has a dark face, a pale scaled throat and a chestnut rump.
- Cuban Bullfinch Melopyrrha nigra
This black bird inhabits Cuba and nearby islands and has white on the shoulders and outer flight feathers. Males have a blue-violet gloss, while females are duller black.
- Blackstart Oenanthe melanura
The Blackstart is a grey-brown wheatear with a conspicuous black tail. It lives in rocky deserts and mountains and nests in rock crevices.
- 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.
- Lunulated Antbird Oneillornis lunulatus
This scarce antbird inhabits lowland rainforest understory in eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. Males are gray and females brown, but both have a white eyebrow and throat.
- Black-cheeked Woodpecker Melanerpes pucherani
The sexes differ in the red on the head; this woodpecker feeds in humid lowland evergreen forest, including in the canopy.
- Scintillant Hummingbird Selasphorus scintilla
The Scintillant Hummingbird is a tiny hummingbird of highland scrub and forest edges. During breeding, males defend feeding areas with chases and steep dives.