Meet the world’s animals.

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• Chapman's Antshrike Thamnophilus zarumae

  

  Chapman's Antshrike is about 14–15 cm long and occurs from southwestern Ecuador into northwestern Peru. It uses forest edges and secondary woodland and gleans invertebrates in trees. The species page divides this region between two subspecies.

• Fernandina's Flicker Colaptes fernandinae

  This Cuban woodpecker uses open palm savanna and woodland, and forages both on trunks and on the ground.

• Mountain Avocetbill Opisthoprora euryptera

  The Mountain Avocetbill occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. It has green upperparts, a copper-toned head, and a bill whose tip turns upward.

• Seychelles Blue Pigeon Alectroenas pulcherrimus

  This large pigeon lives on islands in the Seychelles. Its dark blue body, pale breast patch, and red bare skin on the face stand out; it feeds on fruit and seeds in trees.

• Madagascar Owl Asio madagascariensis

  The Madagascar Owl is a nocturnal owl found only on Madagascar. It rests in dense vegetation by day and hunts in forests and nearby open areas at night.

• Brimstone Canary Crithagra sulphurata

  The Brimstone Canary ranges from central to southern Africa and uses thickets, forest edges, gardens, and other open places. It mainly eats seeds and fruit, along with insects and nectar.

• Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis

  This African eagle has a black chest band and a white belly. It spots and catches snakes and other prey on the ground.

• Olrog's Cinclodes Cinclodes olrogi

  Olrog’s Cinclodes is a highland ovenbird found in central Argentina. It walks through rocky grassland and hills while searching for invertebrates on the ground.

• Black-backed Bush Tanager Urothraupis stolzmanni

  The Black-backed Bush Tanager has a black head, back, wings, and tail, with a broad white throat and white marks on grey underparts. A 1997 survey at Guandera in northeastern Ecuador recorded it in primary forest and páramo.

• White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata

  The White-tailed Alethe occurs in the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa. Its reddish crown and broad white tips on the outer tail feathers are distinctive. A Ghana study treated it as a sedentary forest specialist that forages for insects on the ground.

• Dark-faced Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maclovianus

  This southern South American migrant reaches the coast and adjacent foothills of northwestern Peru. The Peru Aves account places its Peruvian season from April to October and describes foraging in open places such as grassland and fields.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Crimson-winged Woodpecker Picus puniceus

  This greenish woodpecker has red wings and a red crown, plus a yellow crest. It forages on trunks and large branches in forests and plantations from lowlands into lower mountain areas.

• Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny

  This small hummingbird occurs in dry hill forest and scrub in Ecuador and Peru.

• Sumatran Green Pigeon Treron oxyurus

  The Sumatran Green Pigeon lives in evergreen forest on Sumatra and western Java. It eats fruit, especially figs, and may form groups while feeding.

• Cloud-forest Pygmy Owl Glaucidium nubicola

  This small owl lives in cloud forests from western Ecuador into Colombia. It may be active by day or night and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Long-tailed rosefinch Carpodacus sibiricus

  A thicket-loving bird with a long tail and pale wing-bars.

• Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax

  An eagle widespread across sub-Saharan Africa. Its plumage varies, and it may scavenge or take food from other birds.

• Spotted Barbtail Premnoplex brunnescens

  This small ovenbird lives in evergreen mountain forests from Central America into the Andes. Tawny spots on its breast and around the eye are useful identification marks.

• Gray-hooded Bush Tanager Cnemoscopus rubrirostris

  A tanager of Andean montane forest from Colombia through Peru, with a grey hood, olive upperparts and yellow underparts.

• Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens

  The mourning wheatear is a small bird of deserts and rocky highlands.

• Yellow-throated Flycatcher Conopias parvus

  It occurs east of the Andes in South America. Its black crown, white eyebrow, and yellow throat and belly are distinctive; it uses the canopy and edges of humid forest.

• Creamy-bellied Antwren Herpsilochmus motacilloides

  This small antwren lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have a black cap and broad white eyebrow, and the species is reported at 900–2,100 m.

• Himalayan Woodpecker Dendrocopos himalayensis

  A white shoulder patch stands out against this woodpecker's black back. Males have a red crown, and it searches tree trunks for food.