Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,813 · Stories: 19,540

• Cape Rock Thrush Monticola rupestris

  

  The Cape Rock-Thrush lives in rocky areas and grassland in southern Africa, often in pairs or small groups. Males have a blue-gray head and throat with a brown back; females have buff underparts.

• Yungas Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus spodiops

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest and dense second growth on the eastern Andes. Greenish-brown upperparts and two thin yellow-edged wing bars are distinctive.

• Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of Amazonian forest. It has dark green plumage, a buff neck band, and a pale stripe on the cheek. Tail color varies among subspecies.

• Black-chinned Mountain Tanager Anisognathus notabilis

  This tanager occurs on the Pacific slope of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. A Colombian field study suggested that it depends on humid primary montane forest.

• Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos

  This large vulture occurs in dry parts of Africa south of the Sahara. It has a dark body, white down on the belly and thighs, and a bare head with prominent folds of skin.

• Palau Ground Dove Pampusana canifrons

  This ground dove lives on Palau’s islands. A male specimen was described with a grey head and breast and a bronze-toned back.

• Streaked Xenops Xenops rutilus

  This ovenbird searches for food as it moves along trunks and branches in the forest canopy. The Peru account records it in eastern Andean forests and southeastern lowlands.

• Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides

  The Northern Black Flycatcher occurs across northern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, using moist woodland, acacia savanna and plantations. The male is bluish slate-gray with a long tail and short wings.

• White-eyed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus zosterops

  Olive upperparts, a pale iris, and two narrow wing bars help identify this small tyrant flycatcher. It forages in the understory and midstory inside forest.

• Charming Hummingbird Polyerata decora

  The Charming Hummingbird occurs on Costa Rica's southern Pacific side. It uses forest edges, riverside woodland and other open habitats such as coffee farms, and is reported to be solitary.

• Blue-backed Conebill Conirostrum sitticolor

  A small Andean bird found in forest canopy and high native scrub. Its glossy blue back contrasts with a black head and chest and rufous underparts.

• Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus

  The Jackal Buzzard is a large raptor of southern African hills and mountains. Its plumage varies, and it searches for prey from the air or a perch.

• Banggai Fruit Dove Ptilinopus subgularis

  The Banggai Fruit Dove occurs in Indonesia's Banggai Islands.

• Araguaia Spinetail Synallaxis simoni

  This small spinetail occurs along the Araguaia River in central Brazil. Pairs search low tangles in riverside forest and scrub for food.

• Palawan Flycatcher Ficedula platenae

  A tiny flycatcher endemic to Palawan and nearby islands. It occurs in lowland primary forest and some secondary growth.

• Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus

  The Least Flycatcher is a small bird with a pale eye ring that darts from a perch to catch insects.

• Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius

  This large hummingbird is endemic to Brazil. Orange throat and neck markings with a dark central stripe, and its bill shape, help identify it. A study site in southeastern Atlantic rainforest documented flower feeding.

• Black-and-tawny Seedeater Sporophila nigrorufa

  The Black-and-tawny Seedeater is recorded in eastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Field observations found large flocks before breeding and pairs or smaller feeding groups during breeding.

• Black Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus

  The Black Hawk-Eagle is a large eagle of lowland tropical forest in the Americas. Adults are mostly black, with bold white checkering under the wings.

• Yellow-bibbed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus solomonensis

  A violet crown and yellow breast band make this fruit dove distinctive. It feeds on fruit in trees and lives in forests across islands from the New Guinea region to the Solomon Islands.

• Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner Automolus exsertus

  The Chiriqui Foliage-gleaner occurs on the Pacific slope from southwestern Costa Rica to western Panama. It skulks in humid forest undergrowth and has a rich buff throat, broad eyebrow, and dark rusty tail.

• Equatorial Akalat Sheppardia aequatorialis

  The Equatorial Akalat is a small bird of humid mountain forests in central and eastern Africa. It is about 12–13 cm long, weighs 16.8–18 g and feeds mainly on invertebrates.

• Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus calopterus

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is about 9.5 cm long. It forages in dense understory at forest edges and in second growth; in northern Peru it is recorded along the Andean foothills up to about 600 m.

• Violet-fronted Brilliant Heliodoxa leadbeateri

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia's Andes. Males have a violet-blue forehead, while females are paler green with green spotting.