Meet the world’s animals.

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• Uniform Woodcreeper Hylexetastes uniformis

  

  This woodcreeper occurs in south-central Amazonian forest in Brazil and northern Bolivia. Its species account describes a brown body, dark red bill, and redder wings and tail.

• Mugimaki Flycatcher Ficedula mugimaki

  The Mugimaki Flycatcher breeds in East Asia and migrates to Southeast Asia. In Japan it is seen during spring and autumn passage.

• Grey-backed Tachuri Polystictus superciliaris

  This small flycatcher is endemic to the eastern Brazilian highlands. It uses rocky or shrubby grassland and catches insects while clinging to long grass stems.

• Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris

  A hummingbird endemic to Colombia, with a bronze-red back, chestnut belly, and iridescent green throat. It takes nectar and may defend sites where flowers are abundant.

• Green Warbler-Finch Certhidea olivacea

  The Green Warbler-Finch is endemic to the Galápagos and has the thinnest bill among Darwin's finches. It probes leaves and moss for small arthropods.

• Eastern buzzard Buteo japonicus

  A raptor with a brown back and paler brown underside, distributed from Siberia through Mongolia and China to Japan.

• Ringed Woodpecker Celeus torquatus

  The Ringed Woodpecker is a forest woodpecker of the Amazon basin. It has black and pale bars across the back and a cinnamon-colored head.

• Wompoo Fruit Dove Ptilinopus magnificus

  The Wompoo Fruit Dove is a large green pigeon with a purple throat and chest and a yellow belly. It feeds in rainforest canopies and moves locally between fruiting trees.

• Band-tailed Antbird Hypocnemoides maculicauda

  This small antbird ranges from eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and southern Amazonian Brazil. It lives near water in flooded or gallery forest and swamps; males are gray with a black bib and broad white tail tips.

• Delta Amacuro Softtail Thripophaga amacurensis

  A softtail known from seasonally flooded forest in the southern Orinoco Delta of Venezuela. Fine pale streaks mark its back and underparts.

• Little Slaty Flycatcher Ficedula basilanica

  Endemic to Philippine islands, this flycatcher inhabits the shaded understory of humid evergreen forest and keeps out of sight.

• Blue-billed Black Tyrant Knipolegus cyanirostris

  A tyrant flycatcher of forest edges and waterways, especially in southeastern Brazil. Males are glossy black with a pale bluish bill and red eyes.

• Emerald-chinned Hummingbird Abeillia abeillei

  A small hummingbird of humid mountain forest. The male has a green crown and ear coverts, and its upper throat shines emerald green.

• Lesser Antillean Bullfinch Loxigilla noctis

  On Dominica, male Lesser Antillean Bullfinches are black with an orange chin and throat. Females are olive-brown above and grey-brown below.

• African fish eagle Icthyophaga vocifer

  A large eagle of African waterways that catches fish near the surface.

• Red-throated Wryneck Jynx ruficollis

  The Red-throated Wryneck is a woodpecker relative with a patchy sub-Saharan African range. It searches for ants on the ground and elsewhere, and its subspecies differ in chest markings and plumage.

• Cloven-feathered Dove Drepanoptila holosericea

  This green dove lives in New Caledonia. Males have a yellow belly and white wing bars, and the birds feed on fruit in trees.

• Bicolored Antvireo Dysithamnus occidentalis

  The Bicolored Antvireo is recorded in humid Andean forests, including southern Colombia. Males are dark gray with small white wing spots; females have a brown back and a chestnut crown. The bird searches leaves and leaf litter for insects near the forest floor.

• Bahia Spinetail Synallaxis cinerea

  The Bahia Spinetail is a small bird of a restricted area of eastern Brazil. It searches for insects in the forest understory, sometimes moving with mixed flocks in pairs or family groups.

• Black Shama Copsychus cebuensis

  The Black Shama is a Cebu Island bird with glossy black plumage and a long tail.

• Santa Marta Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes pernix

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia. Its original description recorded plumage from a single adult male.

• Mountain Velvetbreast Lafresnaya lafresnayi

  This hummingbird is recorded around Cuenca, Ecuador. It occurs in montane scrub, riverside vegetation, and forest edges, where its curved bill helps it feed on flower nectar.

• Slate-colored Grosbeak Saltator grossus

  The Slate-colored Grosbeak forages in the canopy and subcanopy of mature forests. Peru Aves shows an adult of unknown sex photographed in Pichincha, Ecuador.

• White-necked Hawk Buteogallus lacernulatus

  The White-necked Hawk is a raptor of Brazil's Atlantic Forest.