Meet the world’s animals.

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• Orangequit Euneornis campestris

  

  The Orangequit lives in Jamaican forests and wooded farmland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Knysna Woodpecker Campethera notata

  This woodpecker is endemic to coastal South Africa. Its green back and wings have yellow marks, while the whitish underside has large black spots. It searches for ants in forest and dense scrub.

• White-cheeked Antbird Gymnopithys leucaspis

  The White-cheeked Antbird has a chestnut back and a white throat and center of the underside edged in black. It forages in the understory of Amazonian terra firme forest and is often found with army ants.

• Black Eagle Ictinaetus malaiensis

  The Black Eagle is a large, dark eagle with broad wings that uses forested hills and mountains. A historical observation in Sri Lanka described it gliding slowly over wooded slopes and into ravines while searching for prey.

• Ecuadorian Piedtail Phlogophilus hemileucurus

  This hummingbird is recorded in montane forest in the northeastern Andes, where it is uncommon in the understory and shrubbery.

• Spot-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus maculipectus

  The Spot-breasted Thornbird is a furnariid of woodlands, savannas, scrub, and wetlands in northwestern Argentina. Its rufous head and pale-marked breast stand out; it builds an elongated nest of twigs.

• Ticking Doradito Pseudocolopteryx citreola

  The Ticking Doradito breeds in central Chile and western Argentina, then moves north to Bolivia in winter.

• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi

  The White-tipped Dove is marked by sandy plumage, a darker back, and white tips on the outer tail feathers. It searches for seeds on the ground in dry woods and riverside scrub.

• Spotted Forktail Enicurus maculatus

  The Spotted Forktail forages beside streams in mountain forest. Its long tail is deeply forked.

• Rufous-browed Hemispingus Poospiza rufosuperciliaris

  This small tanager inhabits high elevations in Peru's eastern Andes. Its broad rufous eyebrow contrasts with the gray plumage, and it occurs in humid montane forest and scrub.

• Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

  The Magellanic Woodpecker searches for food on tree trunks in Patagonian forests. The male gives resonant blows on hollow trunks.

• Stripe-backed Antbird Myrmorchilus strigilatus

  This antbird occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It lives in the lower growth of scrub and woodland, and the sexes differ in eyebrow color.

• Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus

  A hawk with broad wings and a rounded tail. In Japan, it breeds in low mountain forests north of Shikoku and digs up nests of ground-nesting wasps to eat.

• Spangled Coquette Lophornis stictolophus

  This tiny hummingbird is about 7 cm long. The male's crest and glittering throat feathers stand out, and the sexes have different patterns.

• Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner Dendroma rufa

  This foliage-gleaner ranges across parts of Central and South America. It forages in the subcanopy and along edges of semi-open subtropical forest, moving quickly along branches in search of invertebrates.

• Bamboo Flatbill Ramphotrigon megacephalum

  The Bamboo Flatbill occurs in the Amazon region and forages often in Guadua bamboo stands in floodplain forest.

• Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca

  This gray pigeon has a white V-shaped marking from the nape onto the back. It often forages on the ground for food beneath leaf litter.

• White-bellied Blue Flycatcher Cyornis pallipes

  An endemic flycatcher of India's Western Ghats, living in dense foothill forest. Checked sources spell its scientific name Cyornis pallidipes, correcting the pool spelling Cyornis pallipes.

• Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch Poospizopsis caesar

  This finch-like tanager occurs in the southern Peruvian Andes. It forages in semi-humid scrub, and its white throat and eyebrow contrast with a chestnut breast.

• Guadeloupe Woodpecker Melanerpes herminieri

  This woodpecker occurs on Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe. It uses several island habitats, including humid forest, semi-deciduous forest, and mangroves.

• Squamate Antbird Myrmoderus squamosus

  The Squamate Antbird occurs in southeastern Brazil. Males have a black throat grading into scaly marks on the white belly; females have whitish underparts with faint marks.

• White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis

  A vulture of plains and settlements on the Indian subcontinent. It circles in the air while searching for carrion.

• Bronze-tailed Comet Polyonymus caroli

  This hummingbird lives on the Pacific slope of the Peruvian Andes. It has bronzy-green upperparts and a white spot behind the eye, and takes nectar from flowering agaves and cacti.

• Bay Hornero Furnarius torridus

  This ovenbird is associated with river islands and floodplain forest along major Amazonian rivers. It forages on the ground and has a white throat sharply set off from rich rufous underparts.