Meet the world’s animals.

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• Barred Eagle-Owl Ketupa sumatrana

  

  A large owl of forests in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, and nearby islands, it is marked by ear-like tufts and bars across its body.

• Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Thornbill is a small hummingbird of mountain regions from Colombia to Bolivia. Males have dark green upperparts and reddish-green underparts and feed on nectar and insects by woodland edges.

• Rufescent Antshrike Thamnistes rufescens

  A scarce, difficult-to-see antshrike of cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It is brown and buff, with a stout hooked bill.

• White-eyed Foliage-gleaner Automolus leucophthalmus

  A pale area before the eye and a rufous tail help identify it. It searches in forest thickets and among ground litter, and has records at sites in southeastern Brazil.

• Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus

  The Greater Flameback is a large woodpecker ranging across South and Southeast Asia. In part of its range, it is strongly associated with mangroves.

• Pink-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus rodochroa

  This Himalayan rosefinch is raspberry-pink in males and mainly brown in females. It uses subalpine habitats in the breeding season and descends to foothills in winter.

• Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri

  The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.

• Cassin's Hawk-Eagle Aquila africana

  Cassin's Hawk-Eagle is a forest eagle marked in black and white, with a short crest. In humid tropical forest it is secretive and rarely seen soaring.

• Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi

  This large, sturdy flycatcher has gray markings on its sides. It sings from high trees and catches flying insects.

• Shrike-like Tanager Neothraupis fasciata

  This tanager occurs in Brazil's Cerrado. A study of wild, DNA-sexed birds found that the male's black facial mask reaches the lores, while the female's is limited to the auriculars.

• Shiny Whistling Thrush Myophonus melanurus

  This thrush is found in the mountains of Sumatra. Its black plumage has deep blue glossed spots, and it forages on the ground and in the lower levels of moist forest.

• Choco Screech Owl Megascops centralis

  The Choco Screech-Owl is a small owl found from Panama through Colombia to western Ecuador. It occurs in gray and rufous phases, and a row of white spots is visible on the folded wing.

• Azure-crowned Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanocephala

  This hummingbird occurs in moist montane habitats, oak-pine woodland, and gardens in Central America. The male has a glittering blue crown and white underparts, and often feeds at flowering epiphytes.

• Bare-eyed Antbird Rhegmatorhina gymnops

  This antbird lives near the forest floor in southeastern Amazonian Brazil. Bare facial skin forms a pale eye-ring, and it follows army-ant swarms to catch small animals flushed by the ants.

• Rufous-banded Miner Geositta rufipennis

  A regional account from northwestern Patagonia describes it as a ground-dwelling bird of rocky high-Andean areas. It has gray-brown upperparts with rufous marks and a dark tail band. Records note that it descends to lower open country during winter snowstorms.

• Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Celeus castaneus

  This woodpecker has mostly chestnut-brown plumage and a sturdy bill for working into wood. Males have a red stripe along the side of the face; females do not. Ants and termites are major foods.

• Tibetan Serin Spinus thibetanus

  The Tibetan Serin is a small finch with noticeable yellow in males and fine streaks on females. It forms flocks in Chinese mountain forests.

• Hill Pigeon Columba rupestris

  The Hill Pigeon lives in mountains from Central Asia to the Himalayas and also visits towns.

• Verreaux's Eagle Aquila verreauxii

  A large eagle with a striking white V on its black back. It lives among rocky landscapes in Africa and hunts hyraxes as its main prey.

• White-crested Elaenia Elaenia albiceps

  A white crown, olive-grey back and pale wing bars identify this flycatcher. In Chile it occurs from the north of the country to Magallanes, in woods, scrub and gardens.

• Guira Tanager Hemithraupis guira

  This tanager occurs widely in Amazonia and elsewhere in South America. In Tumbes, northwestern Peru, the regional account says it seems limited to mangroves near sea level.

• White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis fischeri

  This flycatcher lives in East African mountain forests and their edges. Active by day, it catches small invertebrates in short aerial sallies.

• Oriental scops owl Otus sunia

  A small owl that breeds in deep forest and hunts insects from dusk into the night.

• Green-backed Hillstar Urochroa leucura

  The Green-backed Hillstar occurs on the northern eastern Andes of Peru and also in Colombia and Ecuador. It inhabits humid montane forest.