Meet the world’s animals.

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• Andean Flicker Colaptes rupicola

  

  A woodpecker of open Andean highlands, marked by a white rump and yellow wings, that often feeds on the ground.

• Bronze-green Euphonia Euphonia mesochrysa

  This small bird inhabits humid montane forest on the eastern Andes from Colombia through Bolivia. It feeds mainly on fruit, including mistletoe berries.

• Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes

  The Crested Pigeon is marked by a thin black crest and a whistle-like sound from its wings when startled into flight.

• Ochre-rumped Antbird Drymophila ochropyga

  An antbird of humid forest in Brazil. Males and females differ in head and breast markings.

• Rufous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis erythrothorax

  The Rufous-breasted Spinetail uses secondary forest and second-growth scrub, gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. A historical museum account describes plumage of specimens from southern Mexico and Central America.

• Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela

  The Gabela Akalat is a small forest bird from west-central Angola. A 2003 survey added records near Conda and Seles, including low secondary growth, forest edge, and regenerating coffee forest.

• Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes alpinus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It moves along outer branches in Polylepis woodland and searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus

  The Green-throated Carib is a Caribbean hummingbird with an iridescent green throat and chest, a blue band beneath them, and black underparts. It uses flower nectar.

• Tropeiro Seedeater Sporophila beltoni

  The adult male is bluish grey with a thick, bright yellow bill. This seedeater breeds in upland grasslands of southern Brazil and moves north to the Cerrado for winter.

• White-rumped Hawk Parabuteo leucorrhous

  This forest hawk is conspicuous for its dark body and white rump. Argentine records place it in humid and subtropical forests.

• Greyish Eagle-Owl Bubo cinerascens

  A small eagle-owl with dark brown eyes, it lives in dry open country and semi-desert with scattered trees and shrubs. It feeds on insects and small animals from dusk into the night.

• Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis

  A boldly marked woodpecker of high-elevation Himalayan foothill forest. Its belly is finely yellow-streaked, and males have a red patch on the rear crown.

• Brandt's Mountain Finch Leucosticte brandti

  A finch of open high mountains that feeds on seeds. The head can look darker in breeding plumage and paler outside the breeding season.

• Ruddy Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia emiliana

  This dove has a rusty-brown body and a paler, yellowish head. It forages quietly in the middle and lower forest, eating fruits and seeds.

• Streak-capped Antwren Terenura maculata

  A small antbird of the Atlantic Forest. It searches leafy middle and upper forest layers in pairs or family groups.

• 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.

• White-throated Robin Irania gutturalis

  Males stand out for a white throat and orange-red underparts. The species breeds in dry uplands and scrub of Southwest Asia and migrates to East Africa.

• Grey-capped Tyrannulet Phyllomyias griseocapilla

  The Grey-capped Tyrannulet is a small bird with a gray head, green back, and yellowish flanks. In eastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest highlands, it takes insects from outer tree branches and also eats small fruit.

• Gorgeted Woodstar Chaetocercus heliodor

  A small hummingbird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes; males have a long pink-violet gorget.

• Masked Crimson Tanager Ramphocelus nigrogularis

  This tanager occurs in Colombia's lowlands and foothills. It has been recorded foraging for fruit and insects in trees.

• Red Goshawk Erythrotriorchis radiatus

  A large reddish-brown raptor, it usually hunts birds alone in northern Australian forest, savanna, and waterside habitats.

• Collared Scops Owl Otus lettia

  This nocturnal owl has mottled brown plumage and ear tufts. It uses tree holes and other cavities for nesting and catches insects and small animals.

• 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.

• Thick-billed Siskin Spinus crassirostris

  The Thick-billed Siskin is a small high-Andean bird with a very broad-based bill. Males have black heads, while females have grey heads; both have yellow rumps.