Meet the world’s animals.

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• Piura Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca piurae

  

  The Piura Chat-Tyrant occurs on the western Andean slope of northwestern Peru. It has a brown back, broad white eyebrow, and rufous wing bars.

• Black-backed Forktail Enicurus immaculatus

  This stream-dwelling bird has black-and-white plumage and a long forked tail. It occurs beside forested streams, alone or in pairs.

• Barred Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia unchall

  The Barred Cuckoo-Dove is a long-tailed dove ranging from the western Himalayas through Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong it is recorded as a winter visitor and passage migrant to well-wooded areas.

• White-browed Owl Athene superciliaris

  The White-browed Owl has a rounded brown head with white markings and is active at night. It is found only on Madagascar.

• Rufous-backed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla haematonota

  The Rufous-backed Stipplethroat is a small bird of tropical South American forests. Males have a rufous back and white spots on the black throat.

• Blyth's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus alboniger

  This forest eagle occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and northern Borneo. The adult male has black upperparts and a white throat and breast marked with dark streaks, and watches for prey from a perch.

• Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

  The Magellanic Woodpecker searches for food on tree trunks in Patagonian forests. The male gives resonant blows on hollow trunks.

• Empress Brilliant Heliodoxa imperatrix

  This large hummingbird occurs in humid mountain forests from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It feeds on nectar at flowers.

• Yellow-winged Tanager Thraupis abbas

  This 17 cm tanager is included in a field guide to the Pacific of Guatemala. It has a yellow wing band, eats fruit and insects, and forages in pairs.

• Star-chested Treerunner Margarornis stellatus

  This ovenbird occurs in mossy montane forest from Colombia into western Ecuador. Its reddish-brown body and rows of white breast spots are distinctive.

• Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra

  A finch of North American conifer forests. Its crossed bill opens cones to reach seeds, and it moves in search of cone crops.

• Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea

  The Cliff Flycatcher is marked by deep rufous underparts and extensive rufous on the wings and tail. From exposed rocky perches it sallies after flying insects, often returning to the same perch.

• Bluethroat Luscinia svecica

  The Bluethroat is a small bird that searches for insects in low shrubs near water and elsewhere. A male's blue throat pattern changes with season and region.

• 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.

• Cuban Pygmy Owl Glaucidium siju

  The Cuban Pygmy Owl has brown upperparts, pale underparts, and two dark spots on the back of its head. It hunts by day as well as at night.

• White-eyed Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla leucophthalma

  This small antbird occurs in Amazonian forest in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. Males are brown and gray, females are mainly brown, and both forage in the lower forest strata.

• Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar

  The Gabar Goshawk is a small hawk with a pale gray-and-white form and an all-dark form.

• Rufous-bellied Woodpecker Dendrocopos hyperythrus

  This woodpecker has a red forehead and crown, black-and-white wings, and a rufous belly. It eats insects and occurs in forests from the Himalayas through parts of East and Southeast Asia.

• Tourmaline Sunangel Heliangelus exortis

  The Tourmaline Sunangel is a small hummingbird of the Andes. Males have glossy green plumage and a violet-blue throat, and the birds feed on nectar and insects.

• Crimson-backed Tanager Ramphocelus dimidiatus

  Males are red with black wings and tail and a thick, silvery lower bill. Females are duller reddish brown. Small groups use open lowland scrub and second-growth forest, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Ocellated Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus ocellatus

  This woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands to the eastern Andean slope. Pale, dark-edged spots mark its head, back and underparts, and it searches for food in lower and middle forest layers.

• Violaceous Euphonia Euphonia violacea

  The Violaceous Euphonia is about 11.4 cm long. Males have blue-black backs and wings, yellow on the front of the head and underparts; females are greenish yellow above with dull yellow underparts.

• Western Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis

  The Western Flycatcher is a small flycatcher that breeds in mountain forests of western North America. It darts into forest gaps to catch flying insects.

• 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.