Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hispaniolan Woodpecker Melanerpes striatus

  

  This woodpecker is native only to Hispaniola. Its yellow-and-black barring, red crown, and groups around tree trunks make it conspicuous. During breeding, several pairs may nest near one another where trees offer many cavities.

• Spot-billed Toucanet Selenidera maculirostris

  

  This toucanet is endemic to Atlantic Forest in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It usually lives alone or in pairs in humid forest and eats fruit, along with invertebrates and small vertebrates.

• Dark Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx bocki

  

  The Dark Hawk-Cuckoo is a large, long-tailed cuckoo with a hawk-like shape, found in montane and foothill forests of Borneo.

• Javan Pond Heron Ardeola speciosa

  

  This heron changes its head and breast plumage between breeding and nonbreeding seasons. Its white wings stand out in flight, and it moves within Southeast Asia.

• Indian White-eye Zosterops palpebrosus

  

  The Indian White-eye is a small bird with a clear white ring around each eye. It forages in small groups among trees for insects, nectar and fruit.

• Ochre-fronted Antpitta Grallaricula ochraceifrons

  

  The Ochre-fronted Antpitta is a small bird endemic to Peru. Males have an ochre forehead and face, and the species lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Rufous-tailed Weaver Histurgops ruficauda

  This weaver lives in and around Tanzania’s Serengeti. Its brown plumage looks scaly where pale feather edges overlap, and a dry-season study found it using open grassland.

• Black Monarch Symposiachrus axillaris

  A long-tailed, mostly black flycatcher of New Guinea's lowland and mountain forests. Its diet is still poorly recorded.

• Mariana Kingfisher Todiramphus albicilla

  The Mariana Kingfisher was recorded in a forest-bird survey on Tinian. A sample collected on Saipan is described as white-headed in a phylogenetic study.

• Kilombero Cisticola Cisticola bakerorum

  This cisticola is restricted to reedbeds in Tanzania's Kilombero Swamp. Its rufous cap and tail-tip bands help identify it.

• Scale-throated Hermit Phaethornis eurynome

  A study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest recorded this hermit visiting open flowers of the bromeliad Vriesea incurvata; visit frequency changed with plant density. It generally feeds on nectar and arthropods in the forest understory.

• Northern Brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans

  This bulbul occurs in eastern Africa. It is mostly brown and uses semi-arid scrub, dry-forest edges, and other wooded habitats; it eats insects and fruit.

• Ethiopian Boubou Laniarius aethiopicus

  This bushshrike has glossy blue-black upperparts and tail, with white spots on the rump. It eats insects and spiders as well as small vertebrates.

• Speckled Tanager Ixothraupis guttata

  The Speckled Tanager lives mainly in the canopy of humid montane forest from Central America to northern South America.

• Rufous-capped Brush Finch Atlapetes pileatus

  This brushfinch is endemic to Mexico. It lives in the understory of pine-oak forest and searches the ground for insects and seeds.

• Black-cheeked Warbler Basileuterus melanogenys

  A small greyish warbler with a black face, bold white eyebrow, and rufous crown.

• Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta

  The Melodious Warbler is a small bird with a yellowish throat and breast and a gray-green to brown back. It favors warm, open places with shrubs.

• Western Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus

  The world’s largest grouse lives mainly in pine woodland. In Britain, it remains in northern Scotland.

• American Pipit Anthus rubescens

  The American Pipit is a small bird that breeds in Arctic and alpine meadows. It walks quickly while feeding and uses open areas such as shores and fields in winter.

• Puna Teal Spatula puna

  This small duck has a black cap extending below the eyes and a pale blue bill. It eats aquatic plant seeds and insects in high-Andean lakes and wetlands.

• South American Tern Sterna hirundinacea

  This tern lives along the coasts of South America. Adults have pale gray bodies, a black cap, and red bills and legs.

• Roraiman Barbtail Roraimia adusta

  Adults have a broad bright chestnut eyebrow reaching the nape, dark eye-area feathers, a white throat and brown-and-buff streaking below. In Guyana's wet mossy high forests, it searches vertical moss-covered surfaces for insects.

• Groundscraper Thrush Turdus litsitsirupa

  The Groundscraper Thrush searches for food on the ground in grassland and open woodland. Its spotted breast and bold black facial stripes are distinctive.

• Green Shrike-Babbler Pteruthius xanthochlorus

  This small bird occurs in mountain regions from the Himalayas to southern China. Males have a gray head and olive upperparts, while females have a paler gray crown. The account records it in mixed mountain forest and oak-rhododendron woodland; some populations move in elevation.