Meet the world’s animals.

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• African fish eagle Icthyophaga vocifer

  

  A large eagle of African waterways that catches fish near the surface.

• Cozumel Emerald Cynanthus forficatus

  This hummingbird is restricted to Cozumel Island, Mexico. Males are emerald green with a deeply forked tail; females also have a forked tail and a dark facial mask.

• Spot-backed Antshrike Hypoedaleus guttatus

  This antbird inhabits moist lowland forest. The male has rows of white spots above, while the female has more extensive ochre below.

• Uniform Woodcreeper Hylexetastes uniformis

  This woodcreeper occurs in south-central Amazonian forest in Brazil and northern Bolivia. Its species account describes a brown body, dark red bill, and redder wings and tail.

• Buff-necked Woodpecker Meiglyptes tukki

  The Buff-necked Woodpecker is a forest-dwelling woodpecker. The male has a buff patch on each side of the neck and a red cheek stripe; the female lacks the red stripe.

• Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques

  The Japanese Scops Owl blends into woodland with bark-like mottled plumage and is active at night.

• Crowned Slaty Flycatcher Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus

  This gray tyrant flycatcher uses forest canopy, edges, and semi-open habitat. In Peru, austral migrants are usually recorded from February through November.

• Congo Moor Chat Myrmecocichla tholloni

  A field-guide account describes a dark brown bird with pale areas on the face, throat, upper breast and lower belly, plus a white wing patch. A Congo reserve survey found it common in open grassland.

• Yellow-throated Seedeater Crithagra flavigula

  This gray-brown seedeater has a pale yellow throat and a yellow rump visible in flight. It occurs locally in dry savanna, favoring rocky hillsides.

• Lesser Antillean Saltator Saltator albicollis

  The Lesser Antillean Saltator is recorded in the Dominica Botanic Gardens and forest at the base of Morne Bruce. It has dark green upperparts, a white eyebrow, and a white throat.

• Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia macassariensis

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on islands of Indonesia. A 2016 study treats the Tanahjampea and Kalaotoa populations as subspecies longa and describes its plumage separately.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• Needle-billed Hermit Phaethornis philippii

  The Needle-billed Hermit uses lowland rainforest understory and takes nectar and small arthropods. It has a long straight bill and elongated central tail feathers tipped with white.

• Upland Antshrike Thamnophilus aroyae

  This antshrike ranges along the eastern Andes from southeastern Peru to central Bolivia. It lives at montane-forest edges and in tall secondary growth.

• Rufous-tailed Xenops Microxenops milleri

  This xenops lives in Amazonian forest canopy. It has buff streaks from the head to the underparts and creeps along trunks and branches while searching for food.

• Melancholy Woodpecker Dendropicos lugubris

  This woodpecker ranges from Sierra Leone to Ghana, southern Nigeria, and southwestern Cameroon. It uses open forest, clearings, edges, gallery forest, and swamp forest.

• Mountain Pygmy Owl Glaucidium gnoma

  This small owl has a long tail, rounded head and yellow eyes. It is active by day as well as at other times, waiting on a perch to surprise small birds and other prey; it ranges through mountains of western North America.

• Salinas Monjita Neoxolmis salinarum

  A localized tyrant flycatcher of saline steppe around Argentina's Salinas Grandes and Ambargasta flats. It has a white underside and eyebrow, and the published nesting evidence is one nest placed in a low shrub.

• White-bellied Blue Flycatcher Cyornis pallipes

  An endemic flycatcher of India's Western Ghats, living in dense foothill forest. Checked sources spell its scientific name Cyornis pallidipes, correcting the pool spelling Cyornis pallipes.

• Vietnamese Greenfinch Chloris monguilloti

  This small finch has a dark head and bright yellow wing panels. It lives in pine forests in southern Vietnam's highlands and forages in small flocks.

• Giant Conebill Conirostrum binghami

  In Peru, this conebill is strongly associated with Polylepis woodland. It has a long, pointed bill.

• Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor

  The Pied Imperial Pigeon is a large, mostly white pigeon with black wing and tail tips. It gathers in island flocks and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Red-necked Buzzard Buteo auguralis

  The Red-necked Buzzard is a hawk with a chestnut head and neck and a reddish tail. It searches for prey from perches along woodland edges and in open areas.

• Violet-throated Metaltail Metallura baroni

  This hummingbird was studied in the south-central Ecuadorian Andes. Males and females differ in throat and belly color, and the birds take arthropods as well as flower nectar.