Meet the world’s animals.

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• Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus

  

  This small woodpecker is widespread across northern and eastern South America. It favors forest edges and regenerating woodland over dense forest interior and searches bark for insects.

• Brambling Fringilla montifringilla

  A bird with orange shoulders and breast that arrives in flocks for autumn and winter.

• Grey-green Fruit Dove Ptilinopus purpuratus

  The Grey-green Fruit Dove is a fruit-eating pigeon found on Tahiti and Moorea in the Society Islands. It uses forests and other wooded places.

• Semiplumbeous Hawk Leucopternis semiplumbeus

  This small raptor inhabits humid forest from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the understory and lower canopy and rarely ventures into open areas.

• Hammond's Flycatcher Empidonax hammondii

  This small flycatcher occurs in western North America and nests mainly in mature evergreen forests, often in the mountains.

• Yellow-throated Tanager Iridosornis analis

  The Yellow-throated Tanager forages alone or in pairs in the middle and lower levels of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Sunda Blue Robin Myiomela diana

  This robin lives in Java’s mountains. In a 2020 specimen study, males were glossy dark blue while females had mainly chestnut plumage.

• Indian Eagle-Owl Bubo bengalensis

  The Indian Eagle-Owl is a large owl of hills and rocky country in the Indian subcontinent. Its raised feather tufts are a clear feature.

• Chilean Woodstar Eulidia yarrellii

  The Chilean Woodstar is a small hummingbird found in Chile and Peru. Males have olive-green upperparts, white underparts, and an iridescent violet-red throat, and feed on flower nectar.

• Silvered Antbird Sclateria naevia

  This antbird occurs in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Males are gray and white, while females are browner. It lives on or near the ground in flooded evergreen forest and eats insects and arachnids.

• Atlantic Plain Xenops Xenops minutus

  Xenops minutus lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It has an upturned bill, a long white eyebrow, and a white throat. An older regional account from southeastern Brazil uses the pre-split name Plain Xenops.

• Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus moluccensis

  A small woodpecker whose male has a red streak on the hindcrown. It usually searches tree trunks and branches alone or in pairs.

• Streaky-headed Seedeater Crithagra gularis

  The Streaky-headed Seedeater lives in woodland and scrub in southern Africa. Fine streaks on the crown and a white eyebrow help identify it, and it eats flowers, buds, seeds, and fruit.

• Beautiful Fruit Dove Ptilinopus pulchellus

  The Beautiful Fruit Dove is a small pigeon of rainforests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It plucks fruit from the ends of branches.

• Grasshopper Buzzard Butastur rufipennis

  The Grasshopper Buzzard is a raptor of open Sahel country that feeds heavily on insects, especially grasshoppers.

• Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus

  This flycatcher occurs in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peru Aves account says it forages at different heights along forest edges and in second growth.

• Vegetarian Finch Platyspiza crassirostris

  The Vegetarian Finch lives on several Galápagos Islands and uses its stout bill to take plant foods. It is extinct on Floreana.

• Seychelles Magpie-Robin Copsychus sechellarum

  On Cousin Island, it forages on small animals exposed as Hawksbill Turtles dig their nests. It has also been seen feeding on turtle eggs.

• New Britain Boobook Ninox odiosa

  Adult New Britain Boobooks have reddish-brown upperparts and yellow-orange eyes; females are larger than males. They are nocturnal, living alone or in pairs and hunting from forest perches.

• Cuban Emerald Riccordia ricordii

  The Cuban Emerald is a hummingbird whose male is green with a long, forked tail. It occurs from coastal to mid-elevation habitats and breeds year-round.

• Castelnau's Antshrike Thamnophilus cryptoleucus

  This antshrike inhabits the Amazon basin along major rivers. It mainly forages in dense understory on river-created islands, and male and female wing markings differ.

• Planalto Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes platyrostris

  Two subspecies with different plumage are described: dark-form D. p. platyrostris and pale-form D. p. intermedius. The first has a blackish crown and buff streaks; the second has a browner crown and brighter rufous wings and tail. A nesting study in northeastern Argentina found nests in natural tree cavities and nest boxes.

• Arizona Woodpecker Leuconotopicus arizonae

  This woodpecker lives mainly in Mexico’s Sierra Madre and reaches only a small part of southern Arizona and New Mexico. It has a wood-brown back and spotted underparts.

• Yemen Linnet Linaria yemenensis

  A small finch of the highlands of southwestern Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It may gather in flocks at higher elevations.