Meet the world’s animals.

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• Stripe-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis cinnamomea

  

  A furnariid of forest understory, edges, and scrubby woodland. Plumage and breast streaking vary geographically.

• 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.

• Mindanao Brown Dove Phapitreron brunneiceps

  The Mindanao Brown Dove is known from forests on Mindanao and Basilan in the Philippines. A conservation account describes its use of upland forest and fruiting trees.

• White-backed vulture Gyps africanus

  A vulture that gathers with others and searches for carcasses in African savannas.

• Golden-naped Tanager Chalcothraupis ruficervix

  This tanager uses humid cloud forest and upper forest levels on the eastern Andes. It joins mixed flocks and searches for small animals and fruit.

• Plumbeous Tyrant Knipolegus cabanisi

  A tyrant flycatcher of forest edges and scrub on the eastern Andean slope. Adult males and females have markedly different plumage.

• Dull-mantled Antbird Sipia laemosticta

  This small antbird occurs in Costa Rica and Panama. It uses dense understory in cloud forest near streams and deep ravines. Males are dark grey and rufous; females are paler.

• Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii

  The Green-breasted Mango is a relatively large hummingbird of tropical American lowlands, found around forest edges and clearings.

• Maroon Woodpecker Blythipicus rubiginosus

  This woodpecker is about 23 cm long and lives in humid forest. It is active by day and searches for food on trunks and branches.

• Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner Dendroma erythroptera

  This ovenbird forages in the mid-story and below the canopy of Amazonian forest. Its gray-brown head and back contrast with chestnut wings and tail.

• Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus

  A small bird with a red tail. Redstarts breed in Britain in spring and summer; British-breeding birds migrate south of the Sahara for winter.

• 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.

• Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus spilonotus

  The Eastern Marsh Harrier flies low over open areas such as grassland and marshes, and may perch close to the ground.

• 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.

• Variegated Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus poecilotis

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in humid Andean mountain forest from Colombia to Peru.

• Riparian Antbird Cercomacroides fuscicauda

  The Riparian Antbird uses riverside floodplain forest and dense river-island thickets. Males are gray and females brown to rufous. Habitat and voice help distinguish it from similar antbirds.

• Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae

  The male Blue-throated Hummingbird has a throat of sapphire-colored feathers that glitter in good light. Both sexes have two white facial stripes and gray underparts.

• Helmeted Woodpecker Celeus galeatus

  The Helmeted Woodpecker lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern South America. A study reports that its plumage resembles that of a larger, co-occurring woodpecker, and tracked birds used cavities in large trees as roosts.

• Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa

  The Plain-brown Woodcreeper uses the lower levels of humid forest in Peru. It forages alone or in mixed flocks and may follow army-ant swarms to catch prey flushed from cover.

• Karoo Scrub Robin Erythropygia coryphoeus

  The Karoo Scrub Robin lives in dry shrubland in South Africa and southern Namibia. It searches for insects among low bushes and on the ground. The pool's older genus name is updated to Cercotrichas coryphaeus as used by the source.

• Dwarf Fruit Dove Ptilinopus nainus

  This small fruit dove lives in lowland and foothill rainforest. Males have a purple chest mark; the birds eat fruit and nectar and may be seen in pairs.

• Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates

  The Dark Chanting Goshawk is a daytime raptor. It watches for prey from a perch and gives a ringing call during the breeding season.

• Yellow-billed Cardinal Paroaria capitata

  The Yellow-billed Cardinal is a small South American bird with a red head and yellow bill. It forages on the ground near wetlands for seeds, berries, and insects.

• Long-tailed Tyrant Colonia colonus

  The male has extremely elongated central tail feathers. This forest-edge tyrant flycatcher perches to catch insects and spiders.