Meet the world’s animals.

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• Great Slaty Woodpecker Mulleripicus pulverulentus

  

  Described as the world's largest woodpecker, it is a large bird that moves through the canopy in small family groups.

• Sharpe's Rosefinch Carpodacus verreauxii

  Sharpe's Rosefinch uses scrub above the treeline and mountain meadows in southwestern China. Males are reddish, while females are grey-brown and streaked.

• Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus

  The Siberian Stonechat uses open grassland and scrub. Males change plumage between the breeding season and winter, while females and young birds are browner.

• Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus

  The Pale Chanting Goshawk is a raptor of open, dry country in southern Africa. It watches for prey from an exposed perch.

• Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner Automolus infuscatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in the Amazon Basin and adjoining foothills. The individual pictured in the species account is of unknown sex and shows an olive-brown back and rufous tail.

• 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.

• Oleaginous Hemispingus Sphenopsis frontalis

  This tanager relative lives in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive head and back, yellowish underparts, and dense-foliage foraging are useful field marks.

• Blue-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena helianthea

  The Blue-throated Starfrontlet lives in mountain forest in Colombia's Eastern Andes. Males have an iridescent blue throat and green body; females are less vivid. It feeds on nectar and also catches insects.

• Eastern Wood Pewee Contopus virens

  The Eastern Wood-Pewee is a small bird of eastern North American forests that waits on a perch and catches flying insects.

• Nicobar pigeon Caloenas nicobarica

  A pigeon with long neck feathers and gleaming blue-green plumage.

• White-throated Screech Owl Megascops albogularis

  This nocturnal owl is marked by a white throat and a streaked belly. It lives in high-elevation temperate forest and pairs may duet.

• Red-collared Woodpecker Picus rabieri

  Adult males show a red head and upper breast, green upperparts, and pale bars on the belly; females have a black crown. The species uses forest and bamboo-rich woodland and searches low branches or the ground for ants.

• Indian Robin Saxicoloides fulicatus

  This small bird ranges across the Indian subcontinent and uses gardens and scrub. It searches for insects on the ground; the male is black with a rufous belly.

• Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus

  A hawk ranging from Africa through South and Southeast Asia to New Guinea. It is known for catching bats in flight around dusk.

• Greyish Miner Geositta maritima

  The Greyish Miner is recorded from western Peru to northern Chile. It walks through sparsely vegetated rocky desert in search of insects and seeds.

• Ash-winged Antwren Euchrepomis spodioptila

  The Ash-winged Antwren forages with mixed-species flocks in the canopy of mature Amazonian forest. Adult males are gray with a black cap and white wingbars; the reddish back and rump can be hidden by folded wings.

• Great Inca Finch Incaspiza pulchra

  This finch is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub on the western Andes. A 2016-2017 study also recorded it at lower elevations in a coastal hill reserve in La Libertad.

• Dot-eared Coquette Lophornis gouldii

  The Dot-eared Coquette is a small hummingbird recorded from northern Brazil and along the Amazon. Gould’s account extended its range to the upper Amazon in Peru.

• Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi

  This flycatcher inhabits dry woodland and scrub from Mexico to northwestern Central America. It resembles related Myiarchus flycatchers; the yellow on the belly helps distinguish it.

• Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

  The Ruddy Ground Dove is a small dove widespread in Central and South America. Males are reddish brown, females are browner, and the birds forage for seeds on the ground.

• Moluccan Scops Owl Otus magicus

  The Moluccan Scops Owl is active at night and has black-spotted plumage that occurs in several color forms.

• Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus pyrrhotis

  The Bay Woodpecker climbs trunks and large branches while foraging. The Hong Kong account describes it in mature broad-leaved forest, alone, in pairs, or in small family groups.

• White-gorgeted Flycatcher Anthipes monileger

  A forest flycatcher with a bright white throat, it searches for small invertebrates low in the undergrowth.

• Pinsker's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus pinskeri

  A forest eagle endemic to the Philippines, it is currently recognized as Nisaetus pinskeri. Adults of the southern population have a pale crown and bold black-and-white markings on the breast and legs.