Meet the world’s animals.

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• Slate-colored Antbird Myrmelastes schistaceus

  

  The Slate-colored Antbird forages in the understory of western Amazonian forest. Males are slaty grey with white dots forming wing bars; females are brown and rufous.

• Indian Spotted Eagle Clanga hastata

  The Indian Spotted Eagle is a raptor of lowland South Asia. It nests in trees or groves within cultivated areas and gardens; in one study in northwest India, most prey delivered to nests were rodents.

• Puerto Rican Woodpecker Melanerpes portoricensis

  This woodpecker is endemic to Puerto Rico. It has a black back, white forehead, and red throat and breast, and searches dead trunks and branches for insects.

• Northern Hawk-cuckoo Hierococcyx hyperythrus

  A cuckoo with a bright yellow eye-ring. It breeds in northeastern Asia, and juveniles have been recorded in Hong Kong in autumn.

• Black-thighed Puffleg Eriocnemis derbyi

  The Black-thighed Puffleg is an Andean hummingbird with metallic green and bronze plumage. The sexes differ in their leg feathers and underparts, and detailed breeding records remain limited.

• Plain-tailed Warbling Finch Microspingus alticola

  This small bird is restricted to a limited part of the northern Peruvian Andes. It searches for food in Polylepis woodland and nearby scrub.

• Western Tragopan Tragopan melanocephalus

  The Western Tragopan is a pheasant that lives in forests of the northwestern Himalaya. Males and females differ greatly in plumage, and males display with calls and their appearance during breeding.

• Maned Duck Chenonetta jubata

  An Australian duck that often walks on land to find food in grassland.

• Spotted Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus erythropygius

  It occurs in humid forests of Central America. In Costa Rica it uses the canopy, edges, and older secondary growth, sometimes in pairs or mixed flocks.

• Grey-winged Blackbird Turdus boulboul

  This thrush inhabits forests from the Himalayas to northern Indochina. Males are black with grey wing panels; females are olive-brown with rufous on the wings.

• Cassia Crossbill Loxia sinesciuris

  It occurs in Idaho's South Hills and Albion Mountains, using older lodgepole pine forests.

• Serra do Mar Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus difficilis

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits coastal mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Olive-green upperparts, gray underparts, and white eye markings help identify it.

• Chat Flycatcher Bradornis infuscatus

  This flycatcher is common in dry savannas and scrublands of southern Africa. It drops from a low perch to catch insects and other prey on the ground.

• Festive Amazon Amazona festiva

  The Festive Amazon is a parrot of the Amazon River basin and riverside regions of Colombia and Venezuela. Adults are green, with red on the back and rump.

• Derbyan Parakeet Psittacula derbiana

  It lives in mountains of Tibet, southwestern China, and northeastern India. Adult males and females can be told apart by bill color.

• Zoe's Imperial Pigeon Ducula zoeae

  Zoe's Imperial Pigeon has a light grey head and a pink neck and upper breast. It inhabits moist forests on New Guinea and larger nearby islands and eats almost entirely fruit.

• Mayotte Scops Owl Otus mayottensis

  The Mayotte Scops Owl is found only on Mayotte. It occurs in grey, brown, and rufous plumage morphs and has yellow eyes.

• Parker's Antbird Cercomacroides parkeri

  A Colombian antbird of forest understory, with gray males and brown-and-cinnamon females.

• Papuan Eagle Harpyopsis novaeguineae

  A large eagle of New Guinea’s forests, it hunts arboreal cuscuses and other animals.

• Smoky-brown Woodpecker Leuconotopicus fumigatus

  A small woodpecker described from Costa Rica's mountain forests. Its brownish body has a small red crown-to-nape patch in males.

• Tepui Goldenthroat Polytmus milleri

  The Tepui Goldenthroat is a hummingbird of tepuis in southern Venezuela and nearby areas, using cloud-forest edges and scrub at about 1,300–2,200 m.

• 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.

• Brown Eared Pheasant Crossoptilon mantchuricum

  The Brown-eared Pheasant is a large pheasant of mountain forests in northeastern China. It eats roots, bulbs and other plant matter.

• Canvasback Aythya valisineria

  A diving duck that breeds on North American lakes and marshes. In winter it gathers on fresh and coastal waters to find aquatic plant roots and tubers.