Meet the world’s animals.
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- Banggai Fruit Dove Ptilinopus subgularis
Photo: James Eaton · no rights reserved · CC0 1.0 The Banggai Fruit Dove occurs in Indonesia's Banggai Islands.
- Brown Goshawk Tachyspiza fasciata
A hawk that hunts in forests and woodlands, mainly in Australia. It uses its long tail and broad wings as it pursues birds and small animals.
- Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe
The Northern Beardless Tyrannulet is a tiny, grayish bird without bristles at the base of its bill. It hops among branches, flicks its tail, and gives whistled notes.
- Chestnut-headed Tanager Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma
This small tanager occurs in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. It uses dense undergrowth and bamboo thickets and feeds on insects.
- Reunion Stonechat Saxicola tectes
This stonechat lives on Réunion. Males show a white eyebrow and wing patch and an orange breast, while the sexes differ in color.
- Lesser Violetear Colibri cyanotus
The Lesser Violetear is a small hummingbird, about 11 cm long, found in the Andes from Colombia to Bolivia. In Peru it occurs in humid montane forest on the eastern slope and at high forest edges in the northwest.
- Plumbeous Antbird Myrmelastes hyperythrus
It occurs across the western Amazon, including Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia, reaching 800 m along the Andean foothills.
- Plain-mantled Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura aegithaloides
This small bird lives in dry scrub and woodland edges, and it is recorded hanging upside down from branches. It feeds mostly on insects.
- Bar-bellied Woodpecker Veniliornis nigriceps
This woodpecker occurs in the eastern Andes, in montane forest and scrub. It has olive-brown upperparts, barred underparts, and red on the male’s head; it forages near the ground.
- Black Wood Pigeon Columba janthina
The Black Wood Pigeon is Japan's largest pigeon. It is blackish purple with a green sheen around the neck.
- Savanna Hawk Buteogallus meridionalis
The Savanna Hawk is a raptor with rufous plumage and long legs. It searches for prey by walking through lowland savanna or by hunting from a perch or in flight.
- Northern Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus arenarum
This small flycatcher ranges from Central America into northern South America. It uses mangroves, nearby vegetation, and scrubby second growth while searching for food.
- Pearly-bellied Seedeater Sporophila pileata
This seedeater is recorded in southern and southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Argentina. Adult male plumage ranges from pale pinkish cinnamon to warm ochre-brown. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of S. bouvreuil.
- White-browed Bush Robin Tarsiger indicus
The male is notable for its white eyebrow and ochre belly. The bird stays close to the ground in shrubby mountain forest.
- Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica
This hummingbird occurs in separate areas from Central America into northwestern South America. Males have violet or green crowns and backs, while females have grey throats and breasts; the birds feed on nectar and small invertebrates.
- White-browed Antbird Myrmoborus leucophrys
This antbird occurs in southern Amazonia and along the eastern Andean slope. It forages in the understory of floodplain forest and mature second growth.
- Dark-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albigularis
This small bird lives in grassy scrub and forest edges in Amazonia and forages in young second growth. Its rufous crown and dark throat are useful field marks.
- Olive-backed Woodpecker Gecinulus rafflesii
The Olive-backed Woodpecker has an olive-green back and golden rump. It searches tree trunks and large branches for insects.
- Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
A brown dove with white spots across a black collar on the back of its neck. In Australian cities and parks, introduced wild birds forage mostly on the ground for seeds and scraps.
- Red Kite Milvus milvus
Adults have a reddish-brown body and a deeply forked tail. They glide through the air and mainly feed on carrion.
- Grey-and-white Tyrannulet Pseudelaenia leucospodia
A small tyrant flycatcher of northwestern Peru and Ecuador. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of deciduous forest and in tall scrub.
- Monte Yellow Finch Sicalis mendozae
This finch lives in the dry Monte Desert of western Argentina. Breeding males are bright yellow and lack olive tones on the throat and breast.
- Mangrove Blue-flycatcher Cyornis rufigastra
This flycatcher hunts insects in mangrove forest. It has dark-blue upperparts and orange underparts, with different facial and throat colors in females.
- Black Jacobin Florisuga fusca
The Black Jacobin is a hummingbird with mostly black plumage, bronzy-green back and wing coverts, and a white tail. It feeds mainly on nectar but also takes insects, living in woodland and gardens from eastern and southeastern Brazil into neighboring countries.