Meet the world’s animals.

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• Beautiful Fruit Dove Ptilinopus pulchellus

  

  The Beautiful Fruit Dove is a small pigeon of rainforests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It plucks fruit from the ends of branches.

• Yellow-browed Woodpecker Piculus aurulentus

  The Yellow-browed Woodpecker has a yellow line above the eye. At one nest in southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest, both parents took turns excavating the cavity and caring for the young.

• Black-and-white Monjita Heteroxolmis dominicana

  This tyrant flycatcher uses wetlands and damp grasslands. A BirdLife regional record lists it at Serranías del Este in eastern Uruguay; males and females differ in plumage.

• Orange-throated Tanager Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron

  This tanager is localized in southeastern Ecuador and the Cenepa River basin of northeastern Peru. The Peru account records it in humid montane forest.

• Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat Cossypha cyanocampter

  The nominate form has a white eyebrow, blue sheen on the wings, and orange underparts. It searches for food in dense forest undergrowth, and the account describes separate western and central/eastern ranges.

• Plain-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla turdina

  This woodcreeper has olive-brown upperparts and a reddish-brown tail. In forests of eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, researchers also recorded it foraging with groups of monkeys.

• 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.

• Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis

  This hummingbird lives in the highlands of Costa Rica and extends south into Panama. Its throat and breast can flash orange-copper and blue-violet as the viewing angle changes.

• Ornate Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus ornatus

  The Ornate Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor marked by a black crest and a rufous neck. In Argentina it glides along forest edges and hunts large birds and mammals.

• African Lemon Dove Columba larvata

  The Lemon Dove lives in African forests. It searches for food among leaf litter on the forest floor and eats seeds, fruit, insects, and other foods.

• Campo Flicker Colaptes campestris

  The male Campo Flicker is marked by a yellow face and breast, with a black crown and nape. At Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve in Buenos Aires, it is often recorded along paths and the outer sidewalk.

• Guatemalan Tyrannulet Zimmerius vilissimus

  A small tyrannulet ranging from southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia. It forages in the canopy and along forest edges, including second-growth woodland.

• Black-chested Mountain Tanager Cnemathraupis eximia

  This tanager inhabits high-elevation forests and scrub in the northern Andes. It eats fruit and insects and moves through the canopy in small or mixed flocks.

• Karoo Chat Emarginata schlegelii

  This chat lives in semi-desert shrubland in southwestern Africa. It has a gray back, white underside, and white outer tail feathers, and catches insects in short flights.

• Marcapata Spinetail Cranioleuca marcapatae

  This spinetail occurs in the mountains of central Cusco, Peru. It has a rufous crown, back, wings, and tail, a grayish face, and a pale throat. It forages in humid montane forest understory, especially around bamboo.

• Pearly Antshrike Megastictus margaritatus

  An antshrike of Amazonian lowland forest. The sexes have different plumage, and records also come from northeastern and east-central Peru.

• Grey-tailed Mountaingem Lampornis cinereicauda

  Grey-tailed Mountaingem is represented here by hummingbirds surveyed at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, Costa Rica. The study recorded this population under an older subspecies name and described different male and female plumage.

• Papuan Harrier Circus spilothorax

  The Papuan Harrier is a raptor of grasslands and wetlands on New Guinea. A 2009 paper reports fieldwork in Papua New Guinea under the historical subspecies name Circus spilonotus spilothorax.

• Spice Imperial Pigeon Ducula myristicivora

  The Spice Imperial Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon found on islands off western New Guinea. A black knob at the base of its bill and iridescent green wings help identify it.

• Olive Woodpecker Dendropicos griseocephalus

  The Olive Woodpecker inhabits forests and dense woodland from central to southern Africa. Its olive-gray underside and upper-canopy foraging are characteristic.

• 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.

• Slaty Flowerpiercer Diglossa plumbea

  This flowerpiercer occurs in the highlands from Costa Rica to western Panama. It can pierce the base of a flower with its upturned bill to obtain nectar.

• Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka

  A black-and-white wheatear. In its UK account, BTO describes it as a rare autumn migrant arriving from southeastern Europe.

• Creamy-rumped Miner Geositta isabellina

  A ground-foraging bird of the high Andes. It searches the soil and spaces among rocks for arthropods.