Meet the world’s animals.
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- Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
Photo: El Golli Mohamed · CC BY-SA 4.0 A small bird that also lives in British cities and industrial centres. Males have grey-black plumage and a red tail.
- Panama Tyrannulet Phylloscartes flavovirens
This small tyrannulet is locally distributed in Panama. It searches for arthropods in the forest canopy and is recorded as a year-round resident.
- Northern Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus punctatus
The Northern Slaty Antshrike is about 14 cm long. In Peru, PeruAves records separate populations in the Chinchipe, Marañón and part of the Huallaga valleys.
- Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera
The Fine-spotted Woodpecker is a medium-sized, green-backed woodpecker. Males and females differ in head pattern, and the amount of spotting below varies across its range.
- Western Emerald Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus
The Western Emerald is a small hummingbird of western Colombia and the Andes of Ecuador. Males glitter green, while females are green above and grey below.
- Malabar Imperial Pigeon Ducula cuprea
This pigeon occurs in India's Western Ghats. The 2022 eBird India taxonomy update separated it from Mountain Imperial-Pigeon and notes its darker iris and narrower tail band as identification features.
- Javan Scops Owl Otus angelinae
This small owl is endemic to Java. It has black streaks on its brown chest and rests or forages near the forest canopy.
- Forest Canary Crithagra scotops
The Forest Canary is a canary of southeastern Africa with a thick, conical bill and a yellow eyebrow stripe. Its upperparts are olive-yellow, with streaks on the breast and flanks.
- Long-tailed Hawk Urotriorchis macrourus
This hawk lives in tropical forests of western and central Africa. It has a long tail, and adults occur in pale and dark forms.
- 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.
- Emerald Tanager Tangara florida
The Emerald Tanager searches for fruit in the canopy of humid montane forest and also finds small invertebrates in moss on branches.
- Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva
A small flycatcher with white patches on both sides of the tail base. Breeding males have orange-red on the throat and breast, but females and young birds look different.
- Southern Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus modestus
This small flycatcher breeds in southern South America and moves north toward the southern Amazon in some seasons. It occurs in lowland scrub, open woodland, and savanna.
- White-throated Antbird Oneillornis salvini
This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest. The male is gray with a white throat, while the female is reddish brown with black barring; in Peru it uses the forest understory.
- Hispaniolan Woodpecker Melanerpes striatus
This woodpecker is native only to Hispaniola. Its yellow-and-black barring, red crown, and groups around tree trunks make it conspicuous. During breeding, several pairs may nest near one another where trees offer many cavities.
- Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii
The Hook-billed Hermit lives in a limited part of Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest. It drinks flower nectar and also eats small arthropods.
- Namaqua Dove Oena capensis
The Namaqua Dove is a small, long-tailed dove that searches for seeds on the ground in dry, open country.
- Powerful Boobook Ninox strenua
The Powerful Boobook is a large owl of forests in eastern and south-eastern Australia. It hunts mainly arboreal mammals, often waiting from a tree perch.
- Scrub Euphonia Euphonia affinis
The Scrub Euphonia is a small bird of woodland, forest edges and semi-open habitats from Mexico through Central America. It is about 9 cm long, weighs around 10 g and eats fruit.
- Hawaiian Hawk Buteo solitarius
The Hawaiian Hawk is the only resident hawk in the Hawaiian Islands. It occurs only on the island of Hawai‘i and is often seen soaring over forests and open areas.
- Ochre-cheeked Spinetail Synallaxis scutata
A furnariid of South America. In southeastern Peru it forages in dense understory along forest edges and in second growth.
- Slender-billed Finch Xenospingus concolor
It occurs in arid regions from central Peru to northern Chile, including riparian woodland and scrub near coastal wetlands.
- Black-banded Flycatcher Ficedula timorensis
A forest flycatcher of Timor. It searches dense undergrowth for insects, usually alone or in pairs.
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus
A flycatcher of lowland forests in Central and South America that eats fruit and insects.