Meet the world’s animals.

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• Boulder Finch Idiopsar brachyurus

  

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

• Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus

  This flycatcher lives in eastern African grassland and semi-arid bushland. It drops from a perch to catch insects on the ground.

• Black-eared Fairy Heliothryx auritus

  The Black-eared Fairy is a hummingbird with a long, mostly white tail, white underparts, and a dark line behind the eye. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid forest and feeds on nectar.

• Spot-breasted Antvireo Dysithamnus stictothorax

  This antbird relative lives in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It searches for food in low branches and vine tangles in humid forest. Black spots mark its breast.

• Moustached Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes falcirostris

  This woodcreeper is associated with patches of dry forest on rich soils in north-eastern Brazil. Its plumage varies among the study's regional specimen series rather than having one uniform brown coloration.

• Tullberg's Woodpecker Campethera tullbergi

  A woodpecker of montane forests from southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon east to the highlands of East Africa. Males have a red forecrown and nape and spotted or barred yellow-green underparts.

• Thick-billed Ground Pigeon Trugon terrestris

  A large pigeon of New Guinea's forests, marked by a thick pale bill and rufous flanks. It searches for food on the forest floor.

• Black-and-chestnut Eagle Spizaetus isidori

  This large eagle has a black crest and a chestnut belly marked with black. It lives in humid forests of northwestern South America and takes arboreal mammals and large birds.

• Belted Flycatcher Xenotriccus callizonus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the highlands from Chiapas in southern Mexico through Guatemala to El Salvador. It uses scrubby woodland.

• Scarlet-breasted Dacnis Dacnis berlepschi

  The Scarlet-breasted Dacnis is recorded in humid lowland forest in southwestern Colombia. It searches for fruit and insects in the canopy.

• Madagascan Stonechat Saxicola sibilla

  This small chat is widespread across Madagascar. A study of its genes and plumage proposed that the Malagasy population could be treated as a distinct species.

• Antillean Crested Hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus

  This small hummingbird differs in appearance by sex and feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Cherrie's Antwren Myrmotherula cherriei

  This antwren forages in waterside thickets along streams and lakes in northwestern Amazonia. Males are strongly black-and-white striped; females have rufous and black stripes.

• Spot-crowned Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes affinis

  A woodcreeper of montane forests from Mexico through Central America. It is recognized by its spotted crown, slender curved bill, and habit of climbing trunks to search for food.

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dryobates minor

  A sparrow-sized woodpecker with black-and-white bars on its back and wings. In Britain it searches for food high in woodlands with plenty of deadwood.

• Topknot Pigeon Lopholaimus antarcticus

  This large pigeon lives in rainforest and other wet forests of eastern Australia. It moves in response to seasonal fruit crops.

• Legge's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus kelaarti

  This large hawk-eagle has a white-tipped crest and streaked gray cheeks. It occurs in southwest India and Sri Lanka, where it uses montane forest and woodland along streams and hunts small mammals and birds.

• Spotted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum maculatum

  In northern Bolivia, this small flycatcher occurs in Amazonian river- and lake-edge forest and tall second growth.

• Blue Finch Porphyrospiza caerulescens

  The Blue Finch is a grassland tanager. Adult males are bright blue with a yellow bill, and a field study found the species strongly associated with natural grasslands, especially upland grasslands.

• Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta

  The Red-rumped Wheatear is marked by rufous on its rump and tail. It lives in stony semi-desert and saline plains.

• Violet-capped Woodnymph Thalurania glaucopis

  The male has a violet-blue crown and green body. Nests have been documented in forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird Sciaphylax castanea

  This antbird occurs in western Amazonia, including northern Peru. Males and females differ in their breast and wing markings, and forage in the understory of floodplain and terra firme forest.

• Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus

  The Northern Plain Xenops searches tree trunks for insects in the lower and middle levels of humid tropical forest and at forest edges. Birds Colombia describes the sexes as similar and notes that juveniles have a dark brown throat.

• Crimson-crested Woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos

  The Crimson-crested Woodpecker is mostly black with white back stripes; the male's red crest is striking. It climbs trunks and large branches to search for insects.