Meet the world’s animals.

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• Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi

  

  The Fujian Niltava is a flycatcher that searches for insects in woodland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Slaty Tanager Creurgops dentatus

  This tanager uses humid Andean forests. Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap; females have rufous throat and underparts, and the species may forage in mixed flocks.

• Emerald-spotted Wood Dove Turtur chalcospilos

  The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove is a small, rounded dove with glossy green spots across its wings. It occurs in eastern and southern Africa.

• Rough-legged Buzzard Buteo lagopus

  A hawk with feathers extending down its legs, moving between the Arctic and open lands farther south with the seasons.

• Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

  A tiny hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers and migrates to Central America in autumn.

• Rio Branco Antbird Cercomacra carbonaria

  This antbird lives in gallery forest in Roraima, northern Brazil, and adjacent Guyana. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Junin Canastero Asthenes virgata

  This canastero occurs locally in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Its orange-rufous throat and pale eyebrow are distinctive.

• West Indian Woodpecker Melanerpes superciliaris

  This woodpecker lives on Caribbean islands and searches for food on tree trunks and branches. A black mark above and behind the eye occurs in most, but not all, subspecies.

• Red-rumped Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus erythropygius

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the high Andes. Gray head, back, and breast contrast with whitish markings on the forehead, throat, and sides of the face, plus rufous belly, rump, and tail. The account describes foraging in humid scrub, highland grassland shrubs, and Polylepis woodland, with perches on bushes and trees.

• Sunda Blue Flycatcher Cyornis caerulatus

  This flycatcher lives in evergreen tropical forest on Borneo and Sumatra. Males are blue and orange, while females are mainly brown; birds sally from canopy perches to catch flying insects.

• Blue-backed Tanager Cyanicterus cyanicterus

  The Blue-backed Tanager is a resident bird recorded in northern South America. Oiseaux.net lists vocal recordings from the Guianas and northern Brazil.

• Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus

  The Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon ranges from the western Himalayas through Southeast Asia and nearby islands. Males show metallic colors on the head and chest.

• Philippine Honey Buzzard Pernis steerei

  This honey-buzzard occurs on the main Philippine islands, excluding Palawan. In 2004 on Panay, observers recorded a bird flying above primary-forest canopy and performing a wing-quivering display flight.

• Black-throated Brilliant Heliodoxa schreibersii

  This hummingbird occurs in scattered foothill populations on the eastern Andes. In northeastern Peru its range extends from foothills into Amazonian lowlands.

• Xingu Scale-backed Antbird Willisornis vidua

  The Xingu Scale-backed Antbird is an antbird of lowland forest in the Brazilian Amazon east of the Xingu River.

• Chilean Seaside Cinclodes Cinclodes nigrofumosus

  The Chilean Seaside Cinclodes is endemic to Chile and mainly uses rocky shores, sometimes foraging on sandy beaches. It uses marine foods but has also been reported drinking fresh water.

• Nuttall's Woodpecker Dryobates nuttallii

  Nuttall's Woodpecker is a small woodpecker found in California's woodlands. It searches trunks and small branches for insects beneath the bark.

• White Monjita Xolmis irupero

  The White Monjita is a South American tyrant flycatcher. A university species page describes the male as almost entirely white, with black eyes, wings, bill, and tail tip; it notes that females are greyer on the crown and back. The bird uses open grasslands and parks with scattered trees and often perches prominently.

• Slaty-backed Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias goodfellowi

  This flycatcher lives in montane forest understory on Mindanao. An early description of the female records dark slate-gray upperparts with white and buff underparts.

• Bright-rumped Yellow Finch Sicalis uropigyalis

  This finch occurs in high-Andean steppe and prepuna in northwestern Argentina. The male has a yellow head and underparts with a gray face.

• Island Imperial Pigeon Ducula pistrinaria

  The Island Imperial Pigeon is a large, pale gray pigeon of island forests with tall trees. It eats fruit and sometimes makes flights over the sea between islands.

• Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus

  A harrier that breeds from eastern Europe to Central Asia. Males are pale gray, while females and juveniles are browner; it lives in open country.

• Amethyst Woodstar Calliphlox amethystina

  The Amethyst Woodstar is a small hummingbird recorded widely in South America. A male’s throat can be iridescent purple in breeding plumage and much duller outside that period.

• East Andean Antbird Drymophila caudata

  The East Andean Antbird is a small antbird of Colombia’s eastern Andean slopes. Males are dark, while females are browner or more rufous.