Meet the world’s animals.

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• Mongolian Finch Bucanetes mongolicus

  

  The Mongolian Finch lives in dry mountains from Central to East Asia. Breeding males show a rosy flush on the head and breast.

• Black-and-white Monjita Heteroxolmis dominicana

  This tyrant flycatcher uses wetlands and damp grasslands. A BirdLife regional record lists it at Serranías del Este in eastern Uruguay; males and females differ in plumage.

• White-bellied Shortwing Myiomela major

  This shortwing occurs in the hills of southern India. Its account describes a slaty-blue back and breast, white belly, and rufous-brown flanks; birds are met singly or in pairs among undergrowth and small trees.

• Blue-crowned Parakeet Thectocercus acuticaudatus

  The Blue-crowned Parakeet has a green body, blue on the face and crown, and a long tail. Its native range includes dry forest and scrub in South America.

• 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.

• Jamaican Owl Asio grammicus

  The Jamaican Owl lives on Jamaica. It uses habitats ranging from forest and farmland to parks, and takes small birds and animals as prey.

• Rusty-winged Antwren Herpsilochmus frater

  This antwren occurs in separated forest regions of Central and South America. Males are gray, females are olive-brownish, and both accounts describe rusty tones in the wings.

• Variable Hawk Geranoaetus polyosoma

  The Variable Hawk has several plumage forms. In Argentina's biodiversity account, a white tail with a broad black band is a shared field mark; the hawk searches open mountain habitats while soaring.

• Red-crowned Woodpecker Melanerpes rubricapillus

  This small woodpecker has different head patterns in males and females: males have a red crown, while females have a white crown. It excavates its own tree cavity for nesting.

• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster

  This hummingbird has a white belly. It uses coastal mangroves and forest edges and feeds on nectar.

• Glistening-green Tanager Chlorochrysa phoenicotis

  A tanager of humid montane forests in Colombia and Ecuador. Males are vivid green; females are duller.

• Satyr Tragopan Tragopan satyra

  A pheasant of high Himalayan forests. Males have vivid red plumage and blue facial lappets, and the birds move up and down the mountains with the seasons.

• Buff-breasted Earthcreeper Upucerthia validirostris

  This ovenbird relative lives in rocky parts of the high Andes. A taxonomic study describes geographic changes in size and plumage. A diet study in southern Peru's queñua forests found insects, spiders, and scorpions in examined birds.

• Tawny-capped Euphonia Euphonia anneae

  This euphonia occurs from Central America to northwestern Colombia. Males have a tawny crown and yellow underparts; the species feeds on small fruits in humid forest and at forest edges.

• Flammulated Flycatcher Ramphotrigon flammulatum

  This flycatcher lives in brush and thorn forest from lowlands into foothills of western Mexico. It can be hard to notice while quiet; a 2013 recording from Jalisco captured a male singing from a tree along a trail.

• Ceylon Whistling-Thrush Myophonus blighi

  This bird lives in wet mountain forests of Sri Lanka. Males and females have different plumage, and it looks for food along streams.

• Puerto Rican Amazon Amazona vittata

  The Puerto Rican Amazon is a green parrot endemic to Puerto Rico. It feeds mainly on wild fruit; tabonuco fruit is also important in October.

• White-fronted Ground Dove Pampusana kubaryi

  This dove occurs on Chuuk and Pohnpei. Adult males have a sooty-black crown and hindneck, with violet gloss on the upper back and parts of the wings.

• Blakiston's Fish Owl Ketupa blakistoni

  A large owl of forests along rivers and around lakes in Hokkaido. It eats fish and small mammals and nests in holes in large trees.

• Hairy-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta

  This antbird lives in the understory of Amazonian terra firme forest. The bare eye-ring and crest color vary among regions.

• Pacific Baza Aviceda subcristata

  A long-tailed, crested hawk that searches the canopy for large insects; females have a browner crown than males.

• Orange-backed Woodpecker Reinwardtipicus validus

  Males have a red crest and underparts with an orange back; females have a dark crown. It searches tree trunks for insects in forests.

• Diamantina Sabrewing Campylopterus diamantinensis

  Campylopterus diamantinensis is a hummingbird from the highlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. A 2017 study described the tail pattern of the population now treated as this species, when it was still considered a subspecies.

• Fulvous-crested Tanager Tachyphonus surinamus

  This tanager lives in forests of northern Amazonia. The male is black with a fulvous crest, while the female has an olive back and gray head.