Meet the world’s animals.

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• Papuan Harrier Circus spilothorax

  

  The Papuan Harrier is a raptor of grasslands and wetlands on New Guinea. A 2009 paper reports fieldwork in Papua New Guinea under the historical subspecies name Circus spilonotus spilothorax.

• Andaman Wood Pigeon Columba palumboides

  This large pigeon lives in forests of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It has a pale grey head and neck, dark back and wings, red bare skin around the eye and a pale yellow bill with a red base. It eats figs and other fruits.

• Dark-bellied Cinclodes Cinclodes patagonicus

  This cinclodes occurs in Chile and Argentina. Its brown body has fine barring, a white eyebrow and throat, and a cinnamon wing bar that is easier to see in flight. It searches for small aquatic prey around rivers, wetlands, and mountain valleys.

• Rhinomyias brunneatus

  This flycatcher searches for insects in forest undergrowth and along edges. It has brown upperparts, a pale eye-ring, a white throat, a pale brown breast and pink legs. Its breeding range is in southern China, with wintering areas in Southeast Asia. The pool uses Rhinomyias; the consulted account uses Cyornis brunneatus.

• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus

  The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a gray and salmon-pink bird with a long, forked tail. It catches insects in the air and gathers to migrate to Mexico and Central America in late summer and fall.

• Rufous-capped Thornbill Chalcostigma ruficeps

  The Rufous-capped Thornbill is a small hummingbird of mountain regions from Colombia to Bolivia. Males have dark green upperparts and reddish-green underparts and feed on nectar and insects by woodland edges.

• Common Diuca Finch Diuca diuca

  A gray-backed finch with a white throat and belly, it searches the ground for seeds. It may form winter flocks and live in territorial pairs in summer.

• White Hawk Pseudastur albicollis

  Most of its body is white, while the upper wings and tail are black. By day it searches for prey from a forest-edge perch or while circling above the canopy.

• Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rarotongensis

  The Lilac-crowned Fruit Dove is a forest pigeon endemic to the Cook Islands, where it occurs on Rarotonga and Atiu.

• Parker's Spinetail Cranioleuca vulpecula

  A small ovenbird of islands in the Amazon river system. It uses young grass and scrub and searches trunks and branches for small arthropods.

• Familiar Chat Oenanthe familiaris

  The Familiar Chat is a small African bird of rocky places and sparse woodland. Its rufous-orange rump and tail stand out against its grey-brown body.

• Stolid Flycatcher Myiarchus stolidus

  This flycatcher has a whitish throat and upper breast, with a pale yellow lower breast and belly. It lives in forests and mangroves and feeds mainly on insects, with some fruit.

• Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae

  The Bee Hummingbird is described as the world's smallest bird. Males have iridescent throat feathers, and the birds visit flowers for nectar in Cuba.

• Black-goggled Tanager Trichothraupis melanops

  This tanager uses humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have black markings through the eye and a bright yellow crown patch.

• Meyer's Goshawk Astur meyerianus

  Meyer's Goshawk is a forest hawk with black upperparts, a white underside, and fine bars on its flanks. Its legs and the base of its bill are yellow.

• Green Imperial Pigeon Ducula aenea

  The Green Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon of forests and mangroves in Asia. It eats fruit and spends time high in the trees.

• Crested Hornero Furnarius cristatus

  The Crested Hornero is recorded in central Argentina. Observations from Córdoba describe mud nests built on tree branches.

• White-throated Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias albigularis

  It has an olive-brown head, pale eyebrow, white throat, broad brown breast band, and white belly. It occurs in the shaded understory of lowland and montane forest.

• Kalinowski’s Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix spodionota

  A chat-tyrant recorded in the central Peruvian Andes and Bolivia. It has cinnamon-colored wing bars.

• White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus

  This hummingbird lives in the mountains from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males have a purple throat; females have green throat spots.

• Small Tree Finch Camarhynchus parvulus

  This small Darwin's finch lives in highlands and forest transition zones of the Galápagos. The male's black hood develops with age, with differences among islands.

• Himalayan Vulture Gyps himalayensis

  A large vulture of high Central Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau, it searches from the air for large-mammal carcasses.

• Red Collared Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica

  The Red Collared Dove is a small dove that feeds on seeds on the ground in open grassland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Light-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca albiceps

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in humid montane forest in southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Its pale crown and dark eyebrow are distinctive.