Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rufous-vented Whitetip Urosticte ruficrissa

  

  A small hummingbird of the northern Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. In males, the white tips of the central tail feathers stand out against the green plumage.

• White-rumped Tanager Cypsnagra hirundinacea

  This tanager inhabits Cerrado and open grassland with low trees in central Brazil. Its black head, white rump and rufous throat are distinctive; it may move in small groups or mixed flocks.

• Tibetan Snowcock Tetraogallus tibetanus

  The Tibetan Snowcock is a large pheasant-family bird of the highlands of Central and South Asia. It is found in mountain landscapes with grassland and rocky ground.

• Pinto's Spinetail Synallaxis infuscata

  Pinto's Spinetail inhabits forest thickets in northeastern Brazil. A specimen comparison describes a dark gray belly, chestnut crown, and glaucous flanks, while the pale eyebrow line varies among specimens.

• Scarlet Finch Carpodacus sipahi

  Adult males are bright scarlet from head to belly, while females are mainly olive and look very different. The finch feeds on plant matter in Himalayan mountain forests.

• Plumbeous Tyrant Knipolegus cabanisi

  A tyrant flycatcher of forest edges and scrub on the eastern Andean slope. Adult males and females have markedly different plumage.

• Rüppell's Black Chat Myrmecocichla melaena

  Rüppell's Black Chat is entirely black, with a large white wing patch that becomes conspicuous in flight. It lives in rocky northern Abyssinian highlands and feeds on invertebrates on the ground.

• Red-faced Parrot Hapalopsittaca pyrrhops

  The Red-faced Parrot has red around the bill and on the wing shoulders, with blue on some flight feathers. It feeds quietly in the canopy of humid mountain forest.

• Grey-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hyogastrus

  The Grey-headed Fruit Dove combines green plumage with gray, claret, and yellow areas. It occurs in small groups in forest canopy and edges in the northern Moluccas.

• Bare-shanked Screech Owl Megascops clarkii

  The facial disc is cinnamon to tawny brown and the eyes are pale yellow. Its brown upperparts are heavily marked with black, the shoulders show a white band, and the lower tarsi and toes are bare. It is nocturnal, roosting by day in dense foliage or among epiphytes. It hunts large insects and small rodents at dusk and at night, usually along forest edges and clearings. Family-sized groups may roost close together.

• Banded Antbird Dichrozona cincta

  The Banded Antbird occurs in lowland Amazonian forest in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. It forages on the forest floor and is recorded to about 900 m in the Andean foothills.

• African Hawk-Eagle Aquila spilogaster

  This medium-large eagle is profiled in a guide to Kruger National Park. Pairs fly over wooded savanna and hunt birds and small mammals.

• Yucatan Woodpecker Melanerpes pygmaeus

  This woodpecker occurs on the Yucatán Peninsula and nearby areas. It inhabits dry lowland scrub and deciduous forest and feeds on insects under bark.

• Bearded Mountaineer Oreonympha nobilis

  A 19th-century account by Gould records specimens from Peru's Cuzco region and flights between flowers with apparent aerial insect-catching. The male description has a blue crown and long green-and-purple throat ornament.

• Mourning Sierra Finch Rhopospina fruticeti

  It occurs in Argentine Patagonia and along the Andes, in shrub steppe and woodland-edge habitats.

• Mikado Pheasant Syrmaticus mikado

  The Mikado Pheasant lives in Taiwan's mountain forests. Males have blue-purple plumage and a long tail.

• Streak-backed Canastero Asthenes wyatti

  This canastero lives in high Andean grassland. It has broad dark streaks on its back and rufous outer tail feathers, and forages among bunchgrass, scattered shrubs and rocks.

• Black-headed Canary Serinus alario

  Males combine black, white, and chestnut, while females have a gray-brown head with a chestnut back and tail. This canary moves through arid scrub following rain and seeding events.

• Bronze-olive Pygmy Tyrant Pseudotriccus pelzelni

  The Peru species page identifies subspecies P. p. peruvianus and describes it feeding inconspicuously in the understory of humid montane forest. It is olive brown above.

• Palawan Flycatcher Ficedula platenae

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

• Indigo Macaw Anodorhynchus leari

  The Indigo Macaw is a large blue parrot of the dry Caatinga in Bahia, Brazil, where licuri palm nuts are its principal food.

• Great Cuckoo-Dove Reinwardtoena reinwardti

  The Great Cuckoo-Dove is a large pigeon with a pale blue-gray head and breast, chestnut back, and long tail. It feeds on fruit and seeds in forests and is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Northern boobook Ninox japonica

  An owl of woodland with large trees that hunts insects at night.

• Black Antbird Cercomacroides serva

  The Black Antbird lives along edges and in the understory of humid evergreen forests in the western Amazon. The male is black to dark grey with a white patch between the shoulders.