Meet the world’s animals.

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• Balsas Screech Owl Megascops seductus

  

  This owl occurs in Mexico’s Balsas River depression. It uses dry forest and thorn scrub and hunts small mammals around night and twilight.

• Bahia Antwren Herpsilochmus pileatus

  The Bahia Antwren inhabits coastal forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. Males are gray and black, while females show buff tones.

• European Serin Serinus serinus

  A small finch that stays year-round in southern Europe and visits northern Europe in summer. It uses open landscapes with scattered trees.

• Snail Kite Rostrhamus sociabilis

  This raptor feeds mainly on freshwater snails. Its long, strongly curved bill fits inside the shell to pull out the animal.

• Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny

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

• Crested Spinetail Cranioleuca subcristata

  The Crested Spinetail is an ovenbird of forests in northern South America. It has a brownish face, a white eyebrow, and a slight crest, and it feeds mainly on arthropods.

• Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus rufigularis

  The Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant is a small bird with a buff throat, olive-green upperparts, and a pale belly. It lives in dry tropical and tropical montane forests and catches invertebrates in bushes.

• Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina

  The Common Ground Dove is a small dove of the southern United States. It forages for seeds on the ground, where its gray-brown plumage blends with soil and grass.

• Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher Cyornis omissus

  The Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher is restricted here to Sulawesi's main island, Indonesia. A broad species account lists moist lowland and montane forest as habitats.

• Large-billed Seed Finch Sporophila crassirostris

  It has a large, thick bill for its body size. The male is almost entirely black with a white wing patch and ivory bill; the female is brown above and buffier below. In Colombia it forages mainly for grass seeds in tall grass near water.

• Lineated Woodpecker Dryocopus lineatus

  The Lineated Woodpecker is a large woodpecker with a black back and a white shoulder stripe. Its scarlet crest and, in males, red cheek stripe stand out. It taps into wood to find insects.

• White-fronted Scops Owl Otus sagittatus

  The White-fronted Scops-owl ranges from southern Myanmar through Thailand to the Malay Peninsula. It has a white forehead and brows and uses forest understorey.

• White-bibbed Antbird Myrmoderus loricatus

  It is endemic to Brazil, in Atlantic Forest from southern Bahia through Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, with nearby areas of Minas Gerais and São Paulo.

• Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica

  The Scottish Crossbill extracts seeds from conifer cones. It has a large head and thick bill, but can be difficult to distinguish from similar crossbills.

• Cuban Black Hawk Buteogallus gundlachii

  This hawk lives near the coasts of Cuba. It often eats crabs and may scavenge dead fish. An older study used a subspecies combination; this entry follows the current species name.

• Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens

  A large hummingbird of mountain forests, it feeds at flowers and the male shows glossy colors on its crown and throat.

• Maquis Canastero Asthenes heterura

  This canastero is recorded in scrub and woodland on Bolivia's eastern Andes. Its long tail and rufous edges on the wings and tail are useful field marks.

• White-fronted Tyrannulet Acrochordopus zeledoni

  The White-fronted Tyrannulet ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It has an olive back, bluish-grey crown, and a pale eyebrow that meets across the forehead. It uses moist mountain-forest canopy and edges, feeding on insects and small berries.

• Chatham Islands Pigeon Hemiphaga chathamensis

  The Chatham Island pigeon is a large forest pigeon now confined to Chatham Island. Its blackish-blue head and breast contrast with maroon wings and a white belly; most birds live in the south of the island.

• Sombre Chat Oenanthe dubia

  Breeding has been confirmed in Djibouti. In 2020, family groups and recently fledged young were seen in rocky wadis with trees.

• Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca

  It has a gray body with a blue cast and blue-green tail and wing tips. It uses trees in open areas, parks, and cities and eats fruit, buds, nectar, and flying insects.

• Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens

  A small black-and-white woodpecker of North America, often seen in woodlots, parks, and at backyard feeders.

• Hantu Boobook Ninox squamipila

  The Hantu Boobook is a small-to-medium owl restricted to Seram Island, with no ear tufts.

• White-flanked Antwren Myrmotherula axillaris

  A small antbird of humid lowland forests from Central America into South America, feeding among low branches.