Meet the world’s animals.

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• Barking Imperial Pigeon Ducula latrans

  

  This large pigeon lives in Fiji's forests. Its gray head and breast contrast with a reddish-brown belly. It eats fruit and uses the forest canopy.

• Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi

  The Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant was observed at several sites in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Its head and back range from brown to olive, while the throat and belly are pale yellow. The study describes foraging in forest edges and shaded secondary growth.

• Blue-browed Tanager Tangara cyanotis

  The blue-green eyebrow contrasts with the black mask, crown, and back. This tanager lives in humid lower Yungas forest and mainly eats fruit.

• Rufous Woodpecker Micropternus brachyurus

  A rufous-brown woodpecker whose male has red on the face; it forages at ant nests in forest.

• Star-throated Antwren Rhopias gularis

  This small antwren lives in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. Both sexes have grey underparts, rufescent-brown upperparts and a black throat spotted with white. It forages low in dense vegetation.

• Ayres's Hawk-Eagle Hieraaetus ayresii

  Ayres's Hawk-Eagle is a small, stocky eagle with a crest it can raise and lower. It mainly catches birds in flight and hunts over wooded savanna and forest patches in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus

  The Rufous Hornero is a rufous bird found in open habitats, including urban areas.

• Jerdon's Bush Chat Saxicola jerdoni

  This bush chat lives in grassland and other semi-open habitats. It is active by day and takes invertebrates from the ground.

• Green Mango Anthracothorax viridis

  The Green Mango is emerald green in both sexes, with a rounded tail that has a blue sheen. It lives in Puerto Rico's mountain forests and shade-coffee plantations, feeding on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Rapa Fruit Dove Ptilinopus huttoni

  Its head, neck, chest, and upper back are blue-grey, shading into a green body. Pink on the head and throat, a rose-purple breast band, and a yellow lower belly add color. It eats fleshy fruit and flower nectar in forest remnants on Rapa Island.

• Ornate Flycatcher Myiotriccus ornatus

  An Andean foothill and subtropical-forest flycatcher from Colombia through Peru. Tail color differs between Andean slopes.

• Black-cheeked Mountain Tanager Anisognathus melanogenys

  This tanager is restricted to Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Its blue and yellow plumage contrasts with a black face.

• White-headed Woodpecker Leuconotopicus albolarvatus

  This woodpecker has a white head and neck against a black body. It feeds heavily on pine seeds in mountainous forests of western North America.

• Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus

  The Black-faced Antbird lives in humid Amazonian forests. Males are bluish grey and black, while females are brown with a black mask, so the sexes have different plumage. It forages in the middle and upper canopy for insects and other arthropods.

• Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens

  In the Argentine account, the Crane Hawk is a raptor that walks through wetlands, grasslands, and woodland while searching for food. It has a bluish-gray back and gray-and-white barring.

• Sharp-billed Canastero Asthenes pyrrholeuca

  This ovenbird lives in dry South American scrub. Its long tail has rusty outer feathers, and it is recorded as a winter visitor in Bolivia's western Chaco.

• Vivid Niltava Niltava vivida

  In the Taiwan endemic subspecies N. v. vivida, males are indigo, black, and orange-yellow, while females are mainly olive-brown and yellow-brown. It uses middle and upper forest layers.

• Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii

  A large hummingbird recorded in Costa Rica’s northern Pacific region. Males have a red-orange iridescent gorget and a white stripe along the middle of the rump.

• Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia macassariensis

  This cuckoo-dove occurs on islands of Indonesia. A 2016 study treats the Tanahjampea and Kalaotoa populations as subspecies longa and describes its plumage separately.

• Southern Antpipit Corythopis delalandi

  A small forest bird of central and southeastern South America, it searches for food on the ground and in the lower forest layers. A regional study documented its distribution and habitat in the Yungas of Bolivia and Argentina.

• Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota

  The Fawn-breasted Tanager has a blue crown and dark facial markings. A São Paulo city account describes males with a blue crown, bluish-black back and wings, and fawn underparts; females and young birds are duller. It eats insects and fruit.

• Gilded Flicker Colaptes chrysoides

  The Gilded Flicker lives in the Sonoran Desert and nearby areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. It nests in cacti and searches for ants on the ground.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Cooper's Hawk Astur cooperii

  A rounded-looking tail and a nearly black crown help identify this hawk. Virginia's atlas found breeding distribution in farmland and near towns as well as forested areas.