Meet the world’s animals.

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• Grey Imperial Pigeon Ducula pickeringii

  

  The Grey Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon that uses forest canopies. It occurs on islands including the Sulu Archipelago and northern Borneo and is seen alone or in pairs.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Olive-faced Flatbill Tolmomyias viridiceps

  In a Colombian photo, the nominate form is shown with an olive back, yellow wing bars and a pale lower bill with a black tip. A 2024 study reported one nest each in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

• Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch Poospizopsis caesar

  This finch-like tanager occurs in the southern Peruvian Andes. It forages in semi-humid scrub, and its white throat and eyebrow contrast with a chestnut breast.

• Sickle-winged Chat Emarginata sinuata

  A sickle-shaped outer wing tip and a dark triangle at the end of the tail help identify this chat. It searches the ground for invertebrates and also eats fruit.

• Line-cheeked Spinetail Cranioleuca antisiensis

  This small bird occurs in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. A nest has been studied in foothill evergreen forest there.

• Spot-breasted Antvireo Dysithamnus stictothorax

  This antbird relative lives in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It searches for food in low branches and vine tangles in humid forest. Black spots mark its breast.

• White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant

  The White-bellied Woodstar is common in montane forest on the eastern Andes and also occurs in humid montane forest on the western slope. Males have a conspicuous violet throat, while females have rufous sides to the breast and belly.

• Changeable Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus cirrhatus

  The Changeable Hawk-Eagle is a forest raptor with pale and dark color morphs. The distribution and resident records cited here refer only to the documented localities.

• Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea

  The Speckled Pigeon is an African pigeon with rows of white spots on its closed wings. It lives in savannas, open woodlands and gardens, and mainly eats seeds and grain.

• Velasquez's Woodpecker Melanerpes santacruzi

  This woodpecker ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America and uses woodland as well as open, human-modified places.

• Brownish Twistwing Cnipodectes subbrunneus

  The Brownish Twistwing uses terra firme forest in the northern Bolivian Amazon, especially dense understory. It has shaggy plumage, a pale lower mandible, ochre edges on the wing feathers and a rufous-brown tail; it is usually solitary.

• Yellow-green Bush Tanager Bangsia flavovirens

  This tanager is recorded in montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador, where it moves among foliage in small groups and mixed flocks.

• Daurian redstart Phoenicurus auroreus

  A small bird with a white patch on the wing, seen mainly in winter in Japan around farmland, riverbanks and open woodland edges.

• Uniform Treehunter Thripadectes ignobilis

  The Uniform Treehunter is a brown ovenbird of forest on the western Andean slope. It searches among branches and vines for arthropods, earthworms and larvae.

• 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.

• Buff-tailed Coronet Boissonneaua flavescens

  The Buff-tailed Coronet is a hummingbird of Andean montane forest. Buff or rufous edges on its tail feathers are distinctive, and it feeds on nectar and small prey.

• Japanese sparrowhawk Tachyspiza gularis

  A small hawk that breeds in woods and even city parks in Japan.

• Red-billed Pigeon Patagioenas flavirostris

  This large pigeon is shaded in purple, pink, and blue-gray. It ranges through tropical deciduous forests and feeds on fruit and berries high in trees.

• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra

  The Rufous Mourner uses the canopy and edges of humid forest in Costa Rica. Adults are brown to rufous, and may be seen alone, in pairs, or in family groups.

• Vegetarian Finch Platyspiza crassirostris

  The Vegetarian Finch lives on several Galápagos Islands and uses its stout bill to take plant foods. It is extinct on Floreana.

• Amur stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri

  A small bird that uses exposed perches in grassland.

• Amazonian Plain Xenops Xenops genibarbis

  Xenops genibarbis is an Amazonian lowland woodcreeper. The nominate subspecies account describes a short, slightly upturned bill and pale eyebrow.