Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-bellied Green Pigeon Treron sieboldii

  

  The White-bellied Green Pigeon is a green pigeon with a noticeable white belly and uses mountain forests in East Asia.

• Crimson-crested Woodpecker Campephilus melanoleucos

  The Crimson-crested Woodpecker is mostly black with white back stripes; the male's red crest is striking. It climbs trunks and large branches to search for insects.

• Galapagos Flycatcher Myiarchus magnirostris

  The Galapagos Flycatcher lives in island forests and feeds mainly on insects, as well as fruit and flowers. It nests in cavities in trees and cacti.

• Ash-breasted Sierra Finch Geospizopsis plebejus

  A small finch of the Andes. The male has a gray body with dark streaks on its back and searches for food on open highland ground.

• Pied Bush Chat Saxicola caprata

  The Pied Bush Chat is a small bird; males are dark with a white wing patch.

• Campo Miner Geositta poeciloptera

  This ground-dwelling bird inhabits Brazilian grasslands. A study at one Minas Gerais site examined the soils where it nested.

• Antillean Crested Hummingbird Orthorhyncus cristatus

  This small hummingbird differs in appearance by sex and feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Long-crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis

  A raptor with a long crest and white wing markings. It hunts small mammals in open country with trees.

• Thick-billed Ground Pigeon Trugon terrestris

  A large pigeon of New Guinea's forests, marked by a thick pale bill and rufous flanks. It searches for food on the forest floor.

• Laced Woodpecker Picus vittatus

  The Laced Woodpecker has a green back and yellowish underparts. The male has a red crown and nape, while those areas are black in the female.

• Small-headed Elaenia Elaenia sordida

  Elaenia sordida is a small-headed, crestless elaenia. A 2022 study in northeastern Argentina recorded foraging in scrub and secondary forest, including fruit feeding.

• 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.

• 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.

• Chestnut-winged Hookbill Ancistrops strigilatus

  This furnariid lives in forests of the Amazon Basin. It may join mixed-species flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Blue-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanura

  This hummingbird occurs in lowlands and foothills from southern Mexico through Central America. A blue tail, purplish rump, and rusty wing patch are key marks; it visits flowering trees and shrubs.

• Wallace's Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus nanus

  Among the smaller eagles, it hunts birds, bats, and other vertebrates within or at the edge of tropical lowland forest.

• Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon Petrophassa rufipennis

  The Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon has a dark brown body with pale spots and chestnut wing panels visible in flight. It lives among sandstone formations in northern Australia.

• Black-and-buff Woodpecker Meiglyptes jugularis

  This woodpecker lives in Southeast Asian forests. Males have a red cheek stripe that females lack. It uses humid forest edges, secondary growth, and bamboo, searching bark for invertebrates.

• Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus

  It is active by day in mountain forest and scrub, flying from perches to catch invertebrates in the air. Bolivian records include a historical specimen without a precise locality and a few sightings.

• Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii

  The male is black with a red rump, while the female has a gray head and a mustard-colored rump. They blend among branches and eat fruit and small arthropods.

• Swynnerton's Robin Swynnertonia swynnertoni

  Swynnerton's Robin has a blue-grey back and bright orange breast. It searches for insects on the forest floor, tossing aside leaf litter as it forages.

• Cream-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albiventris

  This cinclodes occurs in the high Andes. It has a brown back, pale eyebrow, spotted breast and pale wing stripe, and walks on the ground to forage in grassland and by water.

• Violet-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena violifer

  The Violet-throated Starfrontlet has a green head and chest, with an iridescent violet throat patch in males. It belongs to a hummingbird family that uses nectar and small insects.

• European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus

  This raptor varies greatly in plumage. It is a summer visitor in Europe and searches for food in open woodland during the breeding season.