Meet the world’s animals.

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• Scarlet-and-white Tanager Chrysothlypis salmoni

  

  This tanager occurs in humid lowland forest in Colombia and northern Ecuador. Males are red and white, while females replace the red areas with brown; birds gather in canopy flocks.

• Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster

  The Ivory-billed Woodcreeper has a long, pale bill and conspicuous white streaks on its back. In Mexican and Central American forests, it searches tree trunks as it climbs.

• Panama Tyrannulet Phylloscartes flavovirens

  This small tyrannulet is locally distributed in Panama. It searches for arthropods in the forest canopy and is recorded as a year-round resident.

• Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti

  A wheatear that searches the ground for small prey in dry country. Males show clear black-and-white markings, while females are sandier.

• Snow Pigeon Columba leuconota

  The Snow Pigeon is a high-mountain pigeon often seen around cliffs and passes. Its dark head contrasts with a white neck and underside, and it occurs in pairs or small flocks.

• Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus

  An antshrike with dark grey and black plumage in males and olive-brown plumage in females. It eats varied insects in South American lowland evergreen forest.

• Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus

  A large hawk of African forests and woodlands. It mainly takes birds, and in some areas also eats fish or carrion.

• Yellow-vented Woodpecker Veniliornis dignus

  The Yellow-vented Woodpecker is a small woodpecker distributed from Venezuela through the Andes to Peru. A Colombian regional guide describes its life in mountain and secondary forest.

• Blue-throated Hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus

  A hummingbird of shrub patches in the southwestern Ecuadorian Andes. Males have a blue throat, while females show grey and white areas on the throat.

• Boulder Finch Idiopsar brachyurus

  This finch lives among boulder fields and high-altitude grasslands in the southern Andes. Its large bill is distinctive.

• Dark-bellied Cinclodes Cinclodes patagonicus

  This cinclodes occurs in Chile and Argentina. Its brown body has fine barring, a white eyebrow and throat, and a cinnamon wing bar that is easier to see in flight. It searches for small aquatic prey around rivers, wetlands, and mountain valleys.

• Agile Tit-Tyrant Uromyias agilis

  The Agile Tit-Tyrant occurs in the mountains of Colombia, western Venezuela and Ecuador. It has olive-brown upperparts, black lores and a white throat streaked with brown. It searches for insects and fruit in moist montane forest edges and thickets.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Geelvink Fruit Dove Ptilinopus speciosus

  This dove is recorded from islands in Geelvink Bay off northwestern New Guinea. It lives in forest and semi-open habitat and eats fruit. The historical description gives adult males a lilac breast and belly and a yellow, white-edged throat patch.

• Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus

  A lowland Neotropical forest antshrike. In a study in Panama, pairs foraged in the canopy, often among large liana tangles.

• Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla

  This small woodland raptor is marked by a white rump. It darts among trees while hunting small birds and other small animals.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• White-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus ensipennis

  This hummingbird occurs on Tobago and nearby areas. Males have a blue throat, while females are grayer, and both have conspicuous long white tail feathers. It hovers at flowers to take nectar and small insects.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.

• Narrow-billed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes angustirostris

  This woodcreeper occurs widely in South America. It climbs trunks and branches with its long, narrow, slightly curved bill while searching for insects and spiders.

• Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor

  The Cock-tailed Tyrant lives in South American grasslands. The male has a white face and underside, a black patch at the side of the breast, and a long tail; the female is brown with a short tail.

• 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.

• White-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon leucometopia

  This dove has a purplish-blue sheen on the back and a white forehead. It walks on the leaf litter of humid montane forest in Hispaniola.

• White-plumed Antbird Pithys albifrons

  The White-plumed Antbird follows army-ant columns while foraging in the lower forest understory of Amazonia. Adults have long white plumes along the face, and chestnut neck, underparts, and tail.