Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Collared Antshrike Thamnophilus bernardi

  The Peru species account places the nominate form on the Pacific slope of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru; it lists another form farther north in Peru.

• Pied Harrier Circus melanoleucos

  The Pied Harrier has strongly different male and female plumage and flies low over open grassland to search for prey.

• Ash-browed Spinetail Cranioleuca curtata

  This ovenbird searches among mosses and epiphytes in humid montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes.

• White-bellied Blue-Flycatcher Cyornis pallidipes

  The White-bellied Blue-Flycatcher lives in forest undergrowth in the Western Ghats. Males are blue and white; females show brown, grey, rufous, and white.

• Mexican Woodnymph Eupherusa ridgwayi

  The Mexican Woodnymph is a hummingbird found locally in western Mexico. It feeds mainly at low levels in oak woodland and shaded coffee plantations.

• Dusky Pigeon Patagioenas goodsoni

  This medium-sized pigeon has gray to brown plumage with white wing marks. In Colombian Andean forests it forages for fruit and seeds in the canopy.

• Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central and South America. Its upperparts are olive and its underside yellow, with faint yellow wingbars. It is recorded at forest edges, in secondary woodland, and along gallery forests.

• Black-and-chestnut Warbling Finch Poospiza whitii

  The Black-and-chestnut Warbling Finch ranges from Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. It has a black head, a white eyebrow that turns dark chestnut toward the rear, chestnut breast and flanks, and a pale belly. It uses scrub and wooded places and is recorded as an omnivore.

• Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus

  The Hairy Woodpecker is a North American woodpecker that searches for insects while moving along tree trunks.

• Pacific Antwren Myrmotherula pacifica

  The Pacific Antwren is a small bird with different male and female plumage. It occurs on the Pacific side of Central America and north-western South America, using vine-rich forest.

• Greater Spotted Eagle Clanga clanga

  Adults are dark brown with broad wings; young birds have prominent white spots on the back and wings.

• Short-billed Canastero Asthenes baeri

  The Short-billed Canastero is a small furnariid of Argentina's open scrub and sparse woodland. Its grey-brown back and chestnut throat patch stand out, and it searches for food on the ground.

• Ashy-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa randi

  This flycatcher occurs in moist lowland forest on Luzon and Negros in the Philippines. The account places it mainly below 1,000 m.

• Glittering-bellied Emerald Chlorostilbon lucidus

  The Glittering-bellied Emerald occurs in South America. Males are green with a bright blue-green throat; females have grey underparts and white tips on the outer tail feathers.

• Elegant Imperial Pigeon Ducula concinna

  This large pigeon is about 43 cm long. It lives in forests and woodland on the small islands of Wallacea and feeds on fruit.

• White-lored Tyrannulet Ornithion inerme

  This very small tyrant flycatcher occurs in Amazonian lowlands and on the eastern Andean slopes. Its greyish olive body has a white forehead line between the eyes and pale wing-bars. It searches for tiny insects in mature forest canopy.

• Puerto Rican Bullfinch Melopyrrha portoricensis

  This finch is endemic to Puerto Rico, where it lives in forests and thickets. It mainly eats fruit and seeds and moves through dense vegetation.

• Crimson-breasted Woodpecker Dryobates cathpharius

  The Crimson-breasted Woodpecker inhabits Himalayan mountain forests. Adult males have red feathers on the crown and nape, while the female's head is black.

• Ash-winged Antwren Euchrepomis spodioptila

  The Ash-winged Antwren forages with mixed-species flocks in the canopy of mature Amazonian forest. Adult males are gray with a black cap and white wingbars; the reddish back and rump can be hidden by folded wings.

• Hook-billed Kite Chondrohierax uncinatus

  The Hook-billed Kite is a raptor of tropical American forests and wooded streams. It cracks tree snails with its hooked bill; males are gray, while females have brown upperparts and chestnut barring below.

• Plain-brown Woodcreeper Dendrocincla fuliginosa

  The Plain-brown Woodcreeper uses the lower levels of humid forest in Peru. It forages alone or in mixed flocks and may follow army-ant swarms to catch prey flushed from cover.

• Ussher's Flycatcher Muscicapa ussheri

  This flycatcher lives in West African lowland forest. It hunts insects from high dead branches near forest edges and clearings.

• Black-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis nigrivestis

  A hummingbird of high-elevation forest in northwestern Ecuador. It is marked by white leg puffs and feeds on flower nectar.