Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rüppell's Vulture Gyps rueppelli

  

  A large African vulture that soars over open country and feeds on carrion.

• Turquoise Dacnis Dacnis hartlaubi

  The Turquoise Dacnis is endemic to Colombia’s Andes. Adult males are blue-green and black, while females are mostly brown above; its diet is still poorly known.

• Puerto Rican Woodpecker Melanerpes portoricensis

  This woodpecker is endemic to Puerto Rico. It has a black back, white forehead, and red throat and breast, and searches dead trunks and branches for insects.

• Buru Green Pigeon Treron aromaticus

  The Buru Green Pigeon is a forest pigeon with green plumage. Males have a chestnut back, females a green back, and the species is endemic to Buru Island.

• Venezuelan Flycatcher Myiarchus venezuelensis

  A Myiarchus flycatcher found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has a gray-brown back and pale yellow underparts and is recorded in forests and at woodland edges.

• Grey-winged Robin-Chat Cossypha polioptera

  The Grey-winged Robin-Chat is a small African forest bird. It has a slate-grey crown, olive-brown mantle, and rufous rump. In lowland and foothill evergreen, riverine, and gallery forests, it feeds on beetles, ants, and other insects.

• Pacific Hornero Furnarius cinnamomeus

  This hornero ranges from western Ecuador to southwestern Colombia and northwestern Peru. It is cinnamon-colored, with a grey-brown crown and white eyebrow and throat. It searches on the ground for arthropods and snails, and builds an oven-shaped mud nest.

• Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae

  The Bee Hummingbird is described as the world's smallest bird. Males have iridescent throat feathers, and the birds visit flowers for nectar in Cuba.

• Striated Antbird Drymophila devillei

  This antbird occurs mainly in southeastern Peru, and also in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador. It uses the forest understory, often in stands of Guadua bamboo.

• Black-breasted Buzzard Hamirostra melanosternon

  This large raptor lives mainly in inland Australia. It takes prey on the ground and eats carrion; it is known for dropping stones to break eggs.

• Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus

  This is a honeycreeper with a short bill. In 2000, one male was recorded at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.

• White-naped Woodpecker Chrysocolaptes festivus

  The White-naped Woodpecker is marked by a white nape and dark back. It searches bark for invertebrates in open woodland.

• Tuxtla Quail-Dove Zentrygon carrikeri

  A forest dove restricted to a small area of southern Mexico. Bluish-purple tones cover its head and breast, and small numbers occur in moist broadleaf forest from lowlands to mountains.

• Grey Monjita Nengetus cinereus

  This grey tyrant flycatcher has a white throat and a white patch below the eye. The account here describes records from a reserve in Buenos Aires.

• White-tailed Alethe Alethe diademata

  The White-tailed Alethe occurs in the Upper Guinea forests of West Africa. Its reddish crown and broad white tips on the outer tail feathers are distinctive. A Ghana study treated it as a sedentary forest specialist that forages for insects on the ground.

• Planalto Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla dimidiata

  This furnariid is widely distributed in the Brazilian Cerrado and is also recorded in northeastern Paraguay. It occurs in the understory of preserved gallery and riparian forest.

• Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of Amazonian forest. It has dark green plumage, a buff neck band, and a pale stripe on the cheek. Tail color varies among subspecies.

• Klages's Antwren Myrmotherula klagesi

  This small antwren lives in the canopy of lowland floodplain forest in northern Brazil. Males are black and white; females have buff streaks.

• Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  This large vulture occurs in dry parts of Africa south of the Sahara. It has a dark body, white down on the belly and thighs, and a bare head with prominent folds of skin.

• White-bellied Dacnis Dacnis albiventris

  The White-bellied Dacnis forages in the canopy of mature terra firme forest, which is not seasonally flooded. Males have blue heads and breasts with white bellies; females have greenish upperparts and yellowish underparts.

• White-wedged Piculet Picumnus albosquamatus

  This small piculet has grey upperparts and evenly scalloped underparts. At a nest studied in southeastern Brazil, both adults fed the chicks.

• Amethyst Brown Dove Phapitreron amethystinus

  The Amethyst Brown Dove is a Philippine forest endemic. A survey at Mount Makiling recorded it in the canopy and classified it as a fruit-eater.

• Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor

  The Cock-tailed Tyrant lives in South American grasslands. The male has a white face and underside, a black patch at the side of the breast, and a long tail; the female is brown with a short tail.

• Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias nicobaricus

  The Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher (Cyornis nicobaricus) is endemic to the southern Nicobar Islands. It is dark brown above, with a buff eye-ring; the whitish underside has a mottled breast-band. It lives in forest and feeds on invertebrates.