Meet the world’s animals.

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• Yellow-browed Antbird Hypocnemis hypoxantha

  

  A small bird that searches dense foliage around treefalls and forest edges in Amazonian terra firme forest. The male has striking black, yellow, and white markings.

• White-booted Racket-tail Ocreatus underwoodii

  The White-booted Racket-tail is an Andean hummingbird. Males have puffy white leg feathers and a long tail that ends in racket-shaped tips.

• Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus

  The Short-tailed Hawk circles above forests, looking for birds and diving to catch them.

• Christmas Imperial Pigeon Ducula whartoni

  The Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon found only on Christmas Island. Flocks feed on ripe fruit in the rainforest canopy.

• Yellow-tufted Woodpecker Melanerpes cruentatus

  The Yellow-tufted Woodpecker occurs in tropical South America. Its yellow head tuft and red belly stand out; in Bolivia it perches in forest canopies, often on dead branches or snags.

• Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus

  The Tropical Kingbird has a long, forked tail. It perches in open woodland or near water and catches insects.

• Greater Yellow Finch Sicalis auriventris

  This seed-eating finch lives in the Andes of Chile and Argentina. Adult males are yellow, while females are gray-brown.

• Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope

  It breeds in Siberia and eastern Asia and migrates south. Hong Kong records are from autumn passage and winter.

• Slender-billed Xenops Xenops tenuirostris

  This small ovenbird relative has a thin, straight bill and moves over trunks and branches. The Peru account places it in lowland Amazonian forest edges and secondary growth, with records to 500 m along the Andean foothills.

• Large-billed Antwren Herpsilochmus longirostris

  This antwren occurs in forests and scrub on the Brazilian plateau and in northeastern Bolivia. A white eyebrow and spotted gray breast help identify it.

• Snowcap Microchera albocoronata

  The male has a white crown and dark plumage with coppery reflections. Its outer tail feathers have white bases and dark terminal bands. This small hummingbird feeds on nectar near forest edges.

• Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar

  The Gabar Goshawk is a small hawk with a pale gray-and-white form and an all-dark form.

• Buru Green Pigeon Treron aromaticus

  The Buru Green Pigeon is a forest pigeon with green plumage. Males have a chestnut back, females a green back, and the species is endemic to Buru Island.

• Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus

  This small woodpecker is widespread across northern and eastern South America. It favors forest edges and regenerating woodland over dense forest interior and searches bark for insects.

• White-crested Tyrannulet Serpophaga subcristata

  This tyrannulet has yellow-bellied and whitish-bellied forms. Both use scrub and open woodland, avoiding closed forest. It ranges from Bolivia south to Argentina.

• Slate-colored Grosbeak Saltator grossus

  The Slate-colored Grosbeak forages in the canopy and subcanopy of mature forests. Peru Aves shows an adult of unknown sex photographed in Pichincha, Ecuador.

• Gould's Shortwing Heteroxenicus stellatus

  Gould's Shortwing lives in the Himalayas and nearby mountain ranges. Its chestnut back contrasts with a grey breast and belly marked by white spots.

• Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomeus

  This spinetail has chestnut-brown upperparts and head, with white underparts. Its pale yellow chin can be hard to see.

• Ocellated Antbird Phaenostictus mcleannani

  The Ocellated Antbird is an antbird of humid tropical-forest understory. Its blue bare facial skin is conspicuous; at a Panama study site it followed army-ant swarms to feed.

• Black-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia victoriae

  The Black-tailed Trainbearer is a hummingbird of the Andes from Colombia to Peru. Males have long tails and search for nectar.

• White-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla

  An eagle widespread in northern Eurasia. Some winter in northern Japan, while others breed in Hokkaido.

• African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea

  The African Collared Dove has a pale rosy-grey head and neck and a narrow dark half-collar on the nape. It searches for seeds on the ground.

• Chestnut Woodpecker Celeus elegans

  This 26–32 cm woodpecker forages on trunks and branches by day, taking invertebrates from bark.

• Venezuelan Flycatcher Myiarchus venezuelensis

  A Myiarchus flycatcher found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has a gray-brown back and pale yellow underparts and is recorded in forests and at woodland edges.