Meet the world’s animals.

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• Okinawa Woodpecker Dendrocopos noguchii

  

  This woodpecker lives only in forests of northern Okinawa Island. It searches trunks and branches for food, eating nuts and insects.

• Doubleday's Hummingbird Cynanthus doubledayi

  This hummingbird lives in dry forest on Mexico's Pacific coast. The study argues that plumage, voice, and range together distinguish it from the related Broad-billed Hummingbird. Their summer ranges are separate, but they may meet in winter in the Balsas Basin.

• 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.

• Swamp Harrier Circus approximans

  A large raptor that glides low with its wings in a shallow V, searching open areas for prey and carrion.

• Lesser Hornero Furnarius minor

  This small ovenbird is common along Amazonian rivers. It searches for food on the ground in open places created by rivers and similar early-growth habitats made by people.

• Cherry-throated Tanager Nemosia rourei

  This tanager lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Adults have a red throat and yellow eyes, and small groups forage on moss- and lichen-covered branches in the canopy.

• Black Shama Copsychus cebuensis

  The Black Shama is a Cebu Island bird with glossy black plumage and a long tail.

• Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus rufigularis

  The Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant is a small bird with a buff throat, olive-green upperparts, and a pale belly. It lives in dry tropical and tropical montane forests and catches invertebrates in bushes.

• Caura Antbird Myrmelastes caurensis

  The male has red eyes and an entirely dark bill. The species ranges from southern Venezuela to northern Amazonas, Brazil, and searches for arthropods around open forest understorey and large boulders.

• Little Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos elachus

  This small Sahelian woodpecker lives in dry, sparsely wooded country and searches trees for insect larvae.

• Blue-capped Hummingbird Eupherusa cyanophrys

  The Blue-capped Hummingbird is a mountain species in southern Mexico; the male has a vivid blue-violet forecrown.

• Flock Bronzewing Phaps histrionica

  Flock Bronzewings are nomadic ground-feeding pigeons. Inland Queensland observations describe movements following rain and seasonal food availability.

• African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster

  This medium-large eagle is profiled in a guide to Kruger National Park. Pairs fly over wooded savanna and hunt birds and small mammals.

• Pale-legged Hornero Furnarius leucopus

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in northwestern South America, including Peru. A nest was studied in Peruvian floodplain forest.

• White-bridled Finch Melanodera melanodera

  The White-bridled Finch forages on the ground in the grasslands of Magallanes and has conspicuous yellow wings.

• Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher Cyornis herioti

  A Luzon flycatcher whose male has dark blue upperparts. It uses forest, and one nest was reported in a shallow rock cavity beside a river in Aurora National Park in 2009.

• Rufescent Flycatcher Myiophobus rufescens

  This flycatcher ranges along the western Andes from northern Peru to far northern Chile. It has two rufous wing bars and is recorded from forest edges to dry scrub.

• Esmeraldas Antbird Sipia nigricauda

  An antbird of the Pacific slope from western Colombia to western Ecuador. It searches low in the dark understorey of humid foothill forest.

• Speckle-chested Piculet Picumnus steindachneri

  White spots mark this small woodpecker’s black breast, and black bars cross its white belly. It lives in the mountain forests of northwestern Peru and searches for food among shrubs and vines.

• Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes notata

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia’s humid lowlands and river-edge forest. Males show a blue-violet throat against glossy green plumage, and it feeds mainly at flowers.

• Jambu Fruit Dove Ptilinopus jambu

  Male Jambu Fruit Doves have a crimson face and white chest; females have a purplish face and green chest. They eat fruit and live in Southeast Asian evergreen and mangrove forests.

• Slender-billed Vulture Gyps tenuirostris

  The Slender-billed Vulture is a large scavenging vulture. A 2023–2025 survey recorded 20 nests at 12 sites in Upper Assam, India.

• Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis erythrocephalus

  This Andean forest ovenbird has a reddish hood, wings, and tail that stand out against its brown body. It searches for prey by moving dead leaves near the forest floor.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.