Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus lanceolatus

  

  The Sulawesi Hawk-Eagle is a large raptor of Indonesian forest, centered on Sulawesi. Adults have a rufous, streaked breast and a densely barred belly.

• Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus

  The species is common in Panama and uses gardens, shrubby clearings, second-growth woodland, and forest edges. It moves between trees while searching for fruit and insects.

• Darjeeling Woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis

  A boldly marked woodpecker of high-elevation Himalayan foothill forest. Its belly is finely yellow-streaked, and males have a red patch on the rear crown.

• Picazuro Pigeon Patagioenas picazuro

  A Buenos Aires City account describes a vinous purple-brown body and a neck that shines blue-bronze in sunlight. In the city, it feeds on seeds and fruit in parks and other tree-lined places.

• Flammulated Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus flammulatus

  A small South American tyrant flycatcher. In Peru, records come from floodplain forest in the southeast and a separate central area with different forest cover.

• Cape Robin-Chat Cossypha caffra

  Male and female Cape Robin-Chats look alike, with a pale orange breast and a white eyebrow-like marking. In South Africa they use thickets, stream edges, forest margins, gardens, and parks, and feed near the ground on insects and other invertebrates.

• Spix's Spinetail Synallaxis spixi

  A small South American bird recorded at woodland edges, grasslands, and savannas. Its rufous crown and wings contrast with its darker throat.

• Brazilian Ruby Clytolaema rubricauda

  This hummingbird occurs in southeastern Brazil. Males have a ruby-red throat and coppery-rufous tail; females have pale cinnamon underparts.

• Streak-crowned Antvireo Dysithamnus striaticeps

  This antvireo ranges from southeastern Honduras to Costa Rica. It is recorded mainly in evergreen forest on the Caribbean slope of Central America; the AOS checklist does not accept records from western Panama.

• Black-mantled Goshawk Tachyspiza melanochlamys

  The Black-mantled Goshawk is a raptor of New Guinea's mountain forests. Adults show a strong contrast between dark upperparts and rufous underparts.

• Black-throated Saltator Saltatricula atricollis

  This tanager lives in open grassland and savanna in eastern Bolivia, including lightly wooded and seasonally flooded areas.

• Red-headed Flameback Chrysocolaptes erythrocephalus

  The Red-headed Flameback occurs around Palawan in the Philippines. It uses forest and woodland and is treated as a species distinct from the Greater Flameback group.

• Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana

  The Ruddy Quail-Dove is a shy dove of tropical forests that searches for food on the forest floor.

• Masked Water Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta

  This small bird has a white head and a black stripe through the eye. It searches muddy river and pond edges for small arthropods.

• White-throated Robin-Chat Cossypha humeralis

  This bird has dark upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and a rufous belly. It lives in wooded thickets in southern Africa and searches for food on the ground, flicking leaves aside.

• Para Foliage-gleaner Automolus paraensis

  The Para Foliage-gleaner occurs in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Its species account notes a greyish crown and rufous tail, and it uses terra firme forest as well as floodplain and secondary forest. This account follows the range of Automolus paraensis as a separate species.

• Veraguan Mango Anthracothorax veraguensis

  This hummingbird lives in the lowlands of Panama and southern Costa Rica. At one Costa Rican nest, a male-plumaged bird incubated eggs and fed nestlings.

• Rufous-faced Antbird Myrmelastes rufifacies

  The Rufous-faced Antbird occurs in Brazil south of the Amazon. Males and females have different plumage, and the species searches for invertebrates on the ground in moist forest.

• Barred Hawk Morphnarchus princeps

  This large hawk has a blackish-gray throat and chest, with fine black bars across its white belly. It is diurnal and lives in humid foothill and montane forest.

• Lined Seedeater Sporophila lineola

  This small seedeater moves seasonally within South America. In Bolivia it is recorded in open places such as savannas, forest edges, fields, and towns. A study in southeastern Brazil found age-related plumage differences among breeding males.

• Sooty Woodpecker Mulleripicus funebris

  The Northern Sooty Woodpecker is a large woodpecker of the northern Philippines. In the northern taxon, males have broader burgundy facial markings and smaller white spots on the neck than the related southern form.

• Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida

  The Peaceful Dove is a small grey-brown dove with barred plumage. In South Australia it feeds on the ground for seeds and usually occurs in pairs or small flocks.

• Bay-ringed Tyrannulet Phylloscartes sylviolus

  This small tyrannulet occurs in Brazil’s southeastern Atlantic Forest. It has cinnamon eye patches on a green head and may join mixed flocks in the canopy of humid forest.

• Rufous-breasted Bush Robin Tarsiger hyperythrus

  The male Rufous-breasted Bush Robin has a blue back and chestnut underparts. It breeds in the Himalayas, uses mixed conifer forest, and searches the ground for insects.