Meet the world’s animals.

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• Eurasian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum

  

  A small owl of northern Eurasian coniferous forests. It hunts small birds and mammals around dusk and before sunrise.

• Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura napensis

  This small tyrant-flycatcher often holds up its long, white-tipped tail. Along Peru’s Amazon, Ucayali and other rivers, it forages in young vegetation growing on river-created sites.

• Glaucous Tanager Thraupis glaucocolpa

  This blue tanager occurs from Colombia's Caribbean coast to northern Venezuela. It mainly eats fruit and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Lesser Yellownape Picus chlorolophus

  The Lesser Yellownape is an Asian woodpecker with green upperparts and a tufted yellow nape.

• East Andean Antbird Drymophila caudata

  The East Andean Antbird is a small antbird of Colombia’s eastern Andean slopes. Males are dark, while females are browner or more rufous.

• Southern Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus fasciolatus

  A forest snake-eagle of coastal East and southeastern Africa. Its grayish face and three white bars on a relatively long tail are useful identification marks.

• Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner Neophilydor erythrocercum

  The Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in forests across South America, including Peru. It has a rufous tail and rump and a pale throat.

• Grey-winged Robin-Chat Cossypha polioptera

  The Grey-winged Robin-Chat is a small African forest bird. It has a slate-grey crown, olive-brown mantle, and rufous rump. In lowland and foothill evergreen, riverine, and gallery forests, it feeds on beetles, ants, and other insects.

• Brown Bullfinch Pyrrhula nipalensis

  This bullfinch has a gray-brown head and mantle, gray underparts, a long tail, and a narrow white rump. In Great Himalayan National Park it uses high-elevation forest and rhododendron thickets.

• Rufous-vented Whitetip Urosticte ruficrissa

  A small hummingbird of the northern Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. In males, the white tips of the central tail feathers stand out against the green plumage.

• Vinaceous Dove Streptopelia vinacea

  The Vinaceous Dove is marked by a black patch on the back of the neck edged in white, with a pale pink-grey head and breast. It uses dry scrub and savanna south of the Sahara, foraging on the ground for seeds and other vegetation.

• Tawny Owl Strix aluco

  A round-headed owl with large dark eyes. In Britain it is mainly active at night in wooded areas and parks with mature trees.

• Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus uropygialis

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in northern Salta Province, Argentina. The national park database lists forest and montane-forest edges as its habitat.

• Small Tree Finch Camarhynchus parvulus

  This small Darwin's finch lives in highlands and forest transition zones of the Galápagos. The male's black hood develops with age, with differences among islands.

• Ochre-collared Piculet Picumnus temminckii

  This small woodpecker ranges from southeastern Brazil south into Argentina. It occurs at forest edges and in secondary forest, as well as in urban parks and gardens, and mainly eats ant larvae and pupae.

• Fringe-backed Fire-eye Pyriglena atra

  Pyriglena atra is an antbird of coastal forest in northeastern Brazil. It has red eyes; males are black, while females are mainly reddish brown. It forages in dense lower vegetation along forest edges.

• Wahlberg's Eagle Hieraaetus wahlbergi

  Wahlberg's Eagle is a small African eagle, most often dark brown. It breeds in the south and moves within Africa seasonally, hunting across woodland and savanna habitats.

• Bar-bellied Woodcreeper Hylexetastes stresemanni

  This large woodcreeper occurs in humid Amazonian lowland forest. It has a large head, a short, large bill, and a short tail.

• Moorland Chat Pinarochroa sordida

  The plumage and behaviour below come from a 1949 account of the Ruwenzori Mountains only. It describes birds above the bamboo zone, with dark brown upperparts, a faint wingbar and white outer tail feathers.

• Reichenow's Seedeater Crithagra reichenowi

  A small East African finch of open woodland and fields. Its yellow rump and streaked breast and flanks are noticeable features.

• Racket-tipped Thorntail Discosura longicaudus

  This small hummingbird lives in northern South America. The male’s outer tail feathers are greatly elongated and end in racket-shaped tips.

• Enggano Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia cinnamomea

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on Enggano Island southwest of Sumatra. It has reddish-brown, scaly plumage and uses the middle and lower levels of forest.

• Jungle Boobook Ninox theomacha

  The Jungle Boobook is a small-to-medium owl found on New Guinea and nearby islands. It has no ear-tufts.

• Tumbesian Tyrannulet Nesotriccus tumbezanus

  This small flycatcher ranges from southwestern Ecuador to northwestern Peru and uses dry scrub and open woodland.