Meet the world’s animals.

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• Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis

  

  The Spotted Owl is a large owl of western North American forests. It silently hunts small mammals at night.

• Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis chocolatinus

  The Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher occurs in the Ethiopian highlands and southern Eritrea. It catches insects from branches in forest and woodland.

• Barred Dove Geopelia maugeus

  The Barred Dove is a small dove marked by a yellow bare eye-ring and strong bars from throat to breast. It eats seeds on islands of southeastern Indonesia.

• Indian Vulture Gyps indicus

  Adult Indian Vultures have a heavy pale bill and a rounded head covered with fine pale feathers.

• Sulphur-rumped Tanager Heterospingus rubrifrons

  This tanager occurs in lowland forests from eastern Costa Rica to Panama. Its nest was described in detail for the first time from a 2023 observation in Costa Rica.

• Antioquia Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus lanyoni

  This flycatcher occurs in Antioquia and eastern Caldas in northern Colombia. It inhabits moist lowland forest and has prominent yellow markings around the eye and across the face.

• East Amazonian Fire-eye Pyriglena leuconota

  The East Amazonian Fire-eye lives in evergreen forests of north-central and northeastern Brazil. Males are glossy black and females are reddish brown; both have a white patch on the back.

• Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango

  The Jamaican Mango is a hummingbird endemic to Jamaica that feeds on nectar. Iridescent colors fleck its mostly black body.

• Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber

  This woodpecker has a scarlet head and a black-and-white checkerboard back. It drills rows of shallow sap wells in trees and occurs in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast.

• Amazonian Plain Xenops Xenops genibarbis

  Xenops genibarbis is an Amazonian lowland woodcreeper. The nominate subspecies account describes a short, slightly upturned bill and pale eyebrow.

• Japanese Scops Owl Otus semitorques

  The Japanese Scops Owl blends into woodland with bark-like mottled plumage and is active at night.

• 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.

• Green Imperial Pigeon Ducula aenea

  The Green Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of forests and mangroves in Asia. It eats fruit and spends time high in the trees.

• Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea

  The Plumbeous Kite is a daytime raptor with a lead-gray body, red eyes, and yellow legs. It often flies around forest edges and savannas and feeds mainly on insects.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• Upland Antshrike Thamnophilus aroyae

  This antshrike ranges along the eastern Andes from southeastern Peru to central Bolivia. It lives at montane-forest edges and in tall secondary growth.

• 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.

• Andean Flicker Colaptes rupicola

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

• Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia

  This ovenbird occurs in southern South America, where it searches for food on tree trunks and branches.

• Stygian Owl Asio stygius

  A pale rim borders its dark facial disk, and it has long ear tufts. It uses semi-humid to wet woodland and forest edges and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Madagascar Magpie-Robin Copsychus albospecularis

  This small bird occurs widely across Madagascar, and its plumage varies by sex and subspecies. It searches for insects near the forest floor.

• Spectacled Imperial Pigeon Ducula perspicillata

  The Spectacled Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon recorded in North Maluku, Indonesia.

• Malagasy Marsh Harrier Circus maillardi

  This raptor is endemic to Réunion. It lives mainly in wooded mountains; females are larger than males and differ in plumage.