Meet the world’s animals.

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• 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.

• Northern House Wren Troglodytes aedon

  The Northern House Wren is a small brown bird found even around homes and parks in North America. It searches for insects in low branches and shrubs and often gives a lively, bubbling song.

• Bluish-slate Antshrike Thamnomanes schistogynus

  This antshrike inhabits forests in the southern Amazon basin. Males are uniformly bluish gray; females have gray heads, breasts, and upperparts with a rufous belly. It forages in the forest midstory, usually with mixed-species flocks.

• Greater Flowerpiercer Diglossa major

  This large flowerpiercer occurs in southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil. It has a broad black mask, bluish-slate plumage, and a pale blue-gray bill with a strongly hooked tip. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Bridled Honeyeater Bolemoreus frenatus

  This honeyeater occurs in the upland rainforests of northern Queensland. Its overall plumage is sooty grey, with a bright yellow base to the bill.

• Cerulean Cuckooshrike Coracina temminckii

  This cuckooshrike is endemic to Sulawesi, where it inhabits mature hill and mountain forest. Adults are bluish, but juveniles and regional forms differ in color.

• Yellow-winged Vireo Vireo carmioli

  The Yellow-winged Vireo has yellow bars on its black wings. In mountain forest of Costa Rica and western Panama, it feeds on insects, spiders, and berries.

• Yellow-whiskered Greenbul Eurillas latirostris

  This bulbul occurs across parts of Central and East Africa. BirdLife lists moist lowland and montane forests among its major habitats.

• Russet-mantled Softtail Cranioleuca berlepschi

  This softtail occurs in the northern Peruvian Andes. It uses montane and elfin forest near the treeline, where pairs and small groups may join mixed-species flocks.

• Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda

  This sandpiper is usually found in grasslands rather than wetlands. It feeds there and breeds in North America before migrating to South America.

• Black-mantled Goshawk Tachyspiza melanochlamys

  The Black-mantled Goshawk is a raptor of New Guinea's mountain forests. Adults show a strong contrast between dark upperparts and rufous underparts.

• Tickell's Blue Flycatcher Cyornis tickelliae

  A flycatcher with a blue back and reddish throat. It catches flying insects in undergrowth and also picks up termites and similar prey from the ground.

• Purple-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis calolaemus

  The Purple-throated Mountain-gem is a hummingbird of wet subtropical forest from Nicaragua through Costa Rica to Panama. Males have a purple throat patch.

• Lesser Antillean Pewee Contopus latirostris

  A pewee distributed across Puerto Rico and islands of the Lesser Antilles. Subspecies differ among islands, including in the color of the breast and belly.

• Blue-eared Lory Eos semilarvata

  This parrot occurs in the montane forests of Seram, Indonesia. Its dark-red body contrasts with purplish-blue cheeks and ear-coverts and black streaks on the wings. Flowers are part of its diet.

• Red-stained Woodpecker Veniliornis affinis

  This woodpecker inhabits forests of the Amazon Basin. Males have red on the head, females lack red on the head, and both sexes have red wing spots.

• Mauritius Olive White-eye Zosterops chloronothos

  A small white-eye found only on Mauritius, where nectar is its main food.

• Bar-tailed Pheasant Syrmaticus humiae

  The Bar-tailed Pheasant is a long-tailed pheasant with red wattles around the eyes. Blue and white markings stand out on males, while females are mottled brown.

• Sri Lanka Gray Hornbill Ocyceros gingalensis

  The Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill is a small hornbill endemic to Sri Lanka, with a grey body and pale underparts.

• Black-faced Brush Finch Atlapetes melanolaemus

  This brush-finch lives in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The account describes dark sides of the head, back, and tail, a rufous crown and nape, a dark throat, and dull yellow underparts. It forages in low shrubs at forest edges.

• Ayacucho Antpitta Grallaria ayacuchensis

  This antpitta is known from the eastern Andean slope of Ayacucho, Peru. A 2020 taxonomic paper described dark reddish-brown upperparts, a paler lower belly, and a male collected in a Chusquea thicket in secondary forest.

• Sooty Swift Cypseloides fumigatus

  This swift catches insects in flight and nests on cliffs beside waterfalls. A study in northeastern Argentina recorded breeding at several waterfalls.

• Morden's Owlet Otus ireneae

  Morden's Owlet is a small owl restricted to East African coastal forests. A study in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest found it foraging at night and using Cynometra woodland with large old trees.

• Maghreb Magpie Pica mauritanica

  The Maghreb Magpie is a magpie distinguished by blue bare skin around the eye. It searches the ground for insects and small animals, and also eats fruit and seeds.