Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sulawesi Goshawk Lophospiza griseiceps

  

  The Sulawesi Goshawk is a hawk of Sulawesi and nearby islands. Its gray head and dark bars across the pale underside are useful clues to its appearance.

• Green-backed Woodpecker Campethera cailliautii

  The Green-backed Woodpecker is a small woodpecker of woodland and open forest in parts of eastern and central Africa. It is active by day and feeds on small invertebrates, including insects.

• Tyrian Metaltail Metallura tyrianthina

  A 19th-century account describes this hummingbird in the mountains of New Granada and Ecuador and reports that it visits flowers. The plumage and behavior below come from that historical account.

• Capped Seedeater Sporophila bouvreuil

  This seedeater occurs in South America. A plumage study separates reddish-brown males as Sporophila bouvreuil and grey-to-white males as the distinct S. pileata.

• Streak-breasted Treehunter Thripadectes rufobrunneus

  This ovenbird inhabits montane forest in Central America. It moves through the lower and middle forest, and its orange throat and streaked breast help identify it.

• Dinelli's Doradito Pseudocolopteryx dinelliana

  A small tyrant flycatcher with a yellow underside, it is recorded in wetlands of central Argentina toward the northwest.

• Hodgson's Redstart Phoenicurus hodgsoni

  Hodgson's Redstart moves between breeding and wintering areas. It uses high-elevation scrub and forest edges, and searches for food in the upper parts of trees.

• Polynesian Imperial Pigeon Ducula aurorae

  The Polynesian Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon still recorded on Makatea in French Polynesia. Adults have a pale grey head and green-glossed blue back, and they feed on fruit.

• Lesser Horned Owl Bubo magellanicus

  The Lesser Horned Owl ranges from central Peru toward the southern tip of South America. It hunts in open country and roosts or nests in scrub, forest edges, and similar sites.

• Black-and-white Antbird Myrmochanes hemileucus

  This small antbird is recorded in thickets on islands and along large rivers in the Amazon basin. Males have bold black-and-white plumage; females differ in appearance.

• Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus

  A large vulture with broad wings and a dark-brown body.

• Fine-spotted Woodpecker Campethera punctuligera

  The Fine-spotted Woodpecker is a medium-sized, green-backed woodpecker. Males and females differ in head pattern, and the amount of spotting below varies across its range.

• Tooth-billed Hummingbird Androdon aequatorialis

  The Tooth-billed Hummingbird is a hummingbird whose bill tips differ between the sexes. It searches for spiders and small insects, with occasional observations of nectar feeding.

• Yellow-scarfed Tanager Iridosornis reinhardti

  The Yellow-scarfed Tanager occurs in Peru's eastern Andes. It has a blue body, black head and golden band across the sides of the head, and forages in humid montane scrub and elfin forest.

• Scaled Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes squamatus

  This roughly 19 cm woodcreeper inhabits forests in northeastern and southeastern Brazil. It favors forest edges, joins mixed flocks, and searches trunks and leaves for insects.

• Long-tailed Tyrant Colonia colonus

  The male has extremely elongated central tail feathers. This forest-edge tyrant flycatcher perches to catch insects and spiders.

• White-throated Bush Chat Saxicola insignis

  The White-throated Bushchat breeds in Mongolia and Central Asian Russia, then winters in India and Nepal. Bhutan and China are recorded during passage.

• White-faced Quail-Dove Zentrygon albifacies

  The White-faced Quail-Dove occurs patchily in mountains from southern Mexico through northern Central America. It walks on the forest floor, and adults show a gray crown, a pale face, and chestnut upperparts.

• Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus

  A small owl of forests in northern North America and Eurasia. At night it waits on a perch for small animals.

• Manu Antbird Cercomacra manu

  This antbird is common in bamboo patches of southeastern Peru. It forages almost exclusively in stands of Guadua bamboo.

• Moluccan Goshawk Tachyspiza henicogramma

  The Moluccan Goshawk is a forest raptor of the Moluccas. Adults have dark gray upperparts and rufous underparts; juveniles have a different, browner pattern.

• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius

  A woodpecker that drills rows of shallow holes in bark to lick sap. It breeds in eastern North American forests and migrates south for winter.

• Blue-throated Starfrontlet Coeligena helianthea

  The Blue-throated Starfrontlet lives in mountain forest in Colombia's Eastern Andes. Males have an iridescent blue throat and green body; females are less vivid. It feeds on nectar and also catches insects.

• Masked Tanager Stilpnia nigrocincta

  The Masked Tanager occurs in humid forest and at forest edges in northern South America. Males have a lavender-blue head, neck and throat with black lores. The account says it mainly eats fruit, with arthropods also taken.