Meet the world’s animals.

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• Long-tailed Honey Buzzard Henicopernis longicauda

  

  A long-tailed raptor of New Guinea. It can be seen circling slowly with wings spread above the forest canopy.

• Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus

  A small woodcreeper with a wedge-shaped bill that feeds in the understory of humid Amazonian forests.

• Bay-chested Warbling Finch Castanozoster thoracicus

  It has a bluish-gray head and back with a broad rufous band along the flanks. It lives along high-elevation forest edges in southeastern Brazil.

• Green-backed Flycatcher Ficedula elisae

  This flycatcher breeds in eastern China and winters in southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula. It is recorded mainly during autumn passage in Hong Kong.

• Amazonian Black Tyrant Knipolegus poecilocercus

  Males are black, while females are olive-brown. The bird forages inconspicuously in dense understory in flooded or seasonally flooded forest.

• 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.

• Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys

  The inornata subspecies of the Speckled Hummingbird has dark sides to the head and a bronze-green back. In Argentina's Salta and Jujuy provinces, it uses high-elevation scrub and forest.

• Ruddy Pigeon Patagioenas subvinacea

  The Ruddy Pigeon is usually found in the canopy or subcanopy of mature forest. In Peru it is recorded in Andean foothill forest and humid forest in far northwestern Tumbes.

• Egyptian vulture Neophron percnopterus

  A vulture known for a white body, yellow face and occasional use of stones as tools.

• White-whiskered Spinetail Synallaxis candei

  The White-whiskered Spinetail has a black face marked by a white moustache stripe. A Colombia field page documents the nominate form in dry scrub at Los Flamencos, La Guajira, and notes that nearby forms differ in face and throat color.

• Yellow-throated Tanager Iridosornis analis

  The Yellow-throated Tanager forages alone or in pairs in the middle and lower levels of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Gould's Shortwing Heteroxenicus stellatus

  Gould's Shortwing lives in the Himalayas and nearby mountain ranges. Its chestnut back contrasts with a grey breast and belly marked by white spots.

• Smoky Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fumigatus

  This flycatcher inhabits Andean forests. It is dark brown with pale mottling on the throat; one nest on a dead stump was reported in Ecuador.

• Velasquez's Woodpecker Melanerpes santacruzi

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

• Golden-tailed Sapphire Chrysuronia oenone

  This hummingbird is about 9.5–10 cm long. Males have a blue head. It feeds on flower nectar and is found at forest edges and in secondary vegetation.

• Pinon's Imperial Pigeon Ducula pinon

  Pinon's Imperial Pigeon is a large bird with a grey-lavender body, darker wings, a maroon belly and a vivid red eye region. In forests across New Guinea and nearby islands, it feeds mainly on fruit in the canopy.

• American Goshawk Astur atricapillus

  This large forest raptor uses mature woodland. Wisconsin’s wildlife agency records it across the northern two-thirds of the state, in mature deciduous, conifer, and mixed forest.

• Pacific Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes johnsoni

  The Pacific Tuftedcheek occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Its rufous back and flanks and white spots on a dark breast are distinctive.

• Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus

  This is a honeycreeper with a short bill. In 2000, one male was recorded at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.

• Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia

  This bird has a grey-brown back and a paler belly. It is active at dusk and at night, singing loudly from waterside thickets.

• Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid montane forest from Central America into the northern Andes. It forages below the canopy, catching insects in flight or from foliage.

• White-bellied Woodpecker Dryocopus javensis

  A large woodpecker that uses the forest canopy. In Singapore, its native population is confined to a limited area.

• Azure-crowned Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanocephala

  This hummingbird occurs in moist montane habitats, oak-pine woodland, and gardens in Central America. The male has a glittering blue crown and white underparts, and often feeds at flowering epiphytes.

• Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rubricera

  The Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon has a red knob at the base of its bill. It forages mainly in trees for fruit and berries and is native to the Bismarck and Solomon Islands.