Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great Inca Finch Incaspiza pulchra

  

  This finch is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub on the western Andes. A 2016-2017 study also recorded it at lower elevations in a coastal hill reserve in La Libertad.

• Andaman Green Pigeon Treron chloropterus

  The Andaman Green Pigeon is a green pigeon whose male has a maroon back. It forages in the canopy at fruiting trees.

• Augur Buzzard Buteo augur

  The Augur Buzzard is notable for its reddish tail and variable underparts. It watches from perches or scans from the air for small prey.

• Juan Fernandez Firecrown Sephanoides fernandensis

  This hummingbird is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernández Islands. Males and females have very different plumage.

• Parker's Antbird Cercomacroides parkeri

  A Colombian antbird of forest understory, with gray males and brown-and-cinnamon females.

• Tawny Tit-Spinetail Sylviorthorhynchus yanacensis

  A small furnariid localized in high Andean Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub. Its fine bill and long tail are distinctive.

• Antillean Piculet Nesoctites micromegas

  This small piculet lives on Hispaniola. Its yellow crown and the streaked pale underside are distinctive.

• Madagascar Owl Asio madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Owl is a nocturnal owl found only on Madagascar. It rests in dense vegetation by day and hunts in forests and nearby open areas at night.

• Black-crowned Monjita Neoxolmis coronatus

  The Black-crowned Monjita is recorded in Argentina. Its black-and-white head and underside stand out; it often sits alone in an exposed place while searching for food.

• Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans

  It breeds in forests of Siberia and northeastern China and winters from southern China into northern Southeast Asia. The source uses the name Larvivora sibilans for the bird listed in the pool as Luscinia sibilans.

• Black Siskin Spinus atratus

  This small finch lives in high Andean grasslands and rocky areas. Yellow patches on its otherwise black wings and tail are especially visible in flight.

• Green-and-gold Tanager Tangara schrankii

  The Green-and-gold Tanager is a small bird of western Amazonian forest. Its bright colors are shared by both sexes. A National Aquarium account says it forages in the canopy and descends to lower places to nest.

• Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca

  This gray pigeon has a white V-shaped marking from the nape onto the back. It often forages on the ground for food beneath leaf litter.

• White-eyed Buzzard Butastur teesa

  The White-eyed Buzzard is a raptor with conspicuously pale eyes and throat. It is recorded in the Kaiga survey area in India and eats insects as well as small vertebrates.

• Humboldt's Sapphire Chrysuronia humboldtii

  This hummingbird is recorded along Colombia's Pacific coast. In a 19th-century account the male has a blue head and throat, while the female has a coppery back. It feeds on nectar and visits flowering mangroves.

• Russet Antshrike Thamnistes anabatinus

  This antshrike inhabits forests from Mexico to Ecuador. It has warm-brown plumage, a pale eyebrow, and a rustier tail, and forages in the middle to upper levels of forest understory. The Rufescent Antshrike in Peru and Bolivia is a separate species.

• Great Rufous Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes major

  This woodcreeper has a large, strong bill. It climbs tree trunks while searching for insects in forests of central South America.

• Helmeted Woodpecker Celeus galeatus

  The Helmeted Woodpecker lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America. A study reports that its plumage resembles that of a larger, co-occurring woodpecker, and tracked birds used cavities in large trees as roosts.

• Arabian Eagle-Owl Bubo milesi

  An eagle-owl of southwestern Arabia. It uses wadis and other wooded places.

• Santa Marta Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes pernix

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia. Its original description recorded plumage from a single adult male.

• Collared Bush Robin Tarsiger johnstoniae

  This flycatcher occurs in Taiwan. Males have a white eyebrow and a reddish-orange band from the neck to the shoulder. In the breeding season it is recorded in dense shrubs in high-elevation coniferous and mixed forest; in the non-breeding season it is recorded in broadleaf and mixed forest at lower elevations.

• Oriental greenfinch Chloris sinica

  A small bird of Japanese woodland, grassland and fields. It has a thick bill and eats seeds of grasses and other plants.

• Masked Flowerpiercer Diglossa cyanea

  This blue Andean bird has a large black mask around its red eyes. It lives in humid high-elevation forests and feeds on flower nectar, fruit, seeds, and insects.

• Black Wood Pigeon Columba janthina

  The Black Wood Pigeon is Japan's largest pigeon. It is blackish purple with a green sheen around the neck.