Meet the world’s animals.

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• Lawrence's Goldfinch Spinus lawrencei

  

  Male Lawrence’s Goldfinches are gray with black faces and lemon-yellow markings; the birds may move in search of rain, seeds, and water.

• African Dusky Flycatcher Muscicapa adusta

  The African Dusky Flycatcher is a small, short-tailed flycatcher with plain brown plumage that hawks flying insects.

• Red Kite Milvus milvus

  Adults have a reddish-brown body and a deeply forked tail. They glide through the air and mainly feed on carrion.

• Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster

  The Ivory-billed Woodcreeper has a long, pale bill and conspicuous white streaks on its back. In Mexican and Central American forests, it searches tree trunks as it climbs.

• Klages's Antwren Myrmotherula klagesi

  This small antwren lives in the canopy of lowland floodplain forest in northern Brazil. Males are black and white; females have buff streaks.

• Plain Seedeater Catamenia inornata

  This finch relative forages in dry to semi-humid montane scrub and other open habitats in the Andes. Males are grey; females are browner, and their bill colors differ.

• Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae

  The male is a small hummingbird with a blue-violet throat and bronzy-golden tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and also takes small arthropods.

• Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola flavinucha

  It spends the austral summer in northwestern Patagonia and is reported in Peru from March to October. Adults have an ochre patch on the back of the head; Peruvian records are at 3,800–4,900 m.

• Gray-cheeked Green Pigeon Treron griseicauda

  This green pigeon has grey cheeks, and males also show a dark burgundy back. It searches for fruit in trees and may gather at fruiting trees.

• Colima Pygmy Owl Glaucidium palmarum

  This tiny owl is endemic to western Mexico. It occurs in pine and semi-deciduous forests and is also reported from coffee plantations.

• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea

  The White-browed Piculet is a small woodpecker with green upperparts, a rufous rump, and a white stripe behind the eye. It searches for ants and other small prey in low, dense vegetation near bamboo or water.

• Velvet-fronted Euphonia Euphonia concinna

  This small finch-like tanager occurs in the Colombian Andes. It feeds in the mid-levels and canopy of forest, taking fruit and small insects.

• Brown Scrub Robin Erythropygia signata

  This southern African robin occurs in forest and dense scrub. South Africa and Eswatini hold most of the global population, while it is uncommon in Mozambique and reported from few sites there.

• Sulawesi Serpent Eagle Spilornis rufipectus

  This raptor ranges across Sulawesi and nearby islands. Males have a rufous chest and curled crest, and the species feeds mainly on snakes and lizards.

• Dark-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albigularis

  This small bird lives in grassy scrub and forest edges in Amazonia and forages in young second growth. Its rufous crown and dark throat are useful field marks.

• Spot-backed Antwren Herpsilochmus dorsimaculatus

  This antwren lives in lowland evergreen forest in the northwestern Amazon. Males have a black head, a white eyebrow, and black-and-white spots on the back. It is found in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Yellow-tufted Dacnis Dacnis egregia

  A small dacnis of humid Colombian forests and forest edges. Males are bright blue and yellow and forage for insects and fruit in the canopy.

• Minute Hermit Phaethornis idaliae

  This hummingbird occurs in lowland southeastern Brazil. It has iridescent dark-green upperparts and pointed central tail feathers, and forages in the forest understorey.

• Orange-banded Flycatcher Nephelomyias lintoni

  This flycatcher occurs in the humid mountains of Ecuador and Peru. It has a pale eye and orange lower mandible, and takes insects from leaves or in flight.

• Scheepmaker's Crowned Pigeon Goura scheepmakeri

  Scheepmaker’s crowned pigeon is a large pigeon with a lacy blue crest and deep maroon chest. It lives in lowland forests of south-eastern New Guinea.

• Alor Boobook Ninox plesseni

  This owl occurs on Alor and Pantar in the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Ninox novaeseelandiae, but a study using vocal and DNA evidence supports treating it as a separate species.

• Fine-barred Piculet Picumnus subtilis

  This small woodpecker is recorded in southeastern Peru and western Amazonia. A 2009 paper reported records in Acre, Brazil, and described foraging at the edge of terra firme forest with bamboo.

• Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera

  The Two-barred Crossbill uses its crossed bill to open conifer cones and take their seeds.

• Blue-capped Redstart Phoenicurus coeruleocephala

  The Blue-capped Redstart is about 15 cm long, and the sexes differ in plumage. It takes small invertebrates in rocky mountain habitat and open pine forest by day. Recordings in northern India and Central Asia show only part of its range.