Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gray-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis

  

  The Gray-headed Kite is a raptor with a gray head and white underparts. It soars over forest and takes insects, reptiles, and small birds.

• Black-and-buff Woodpecker Meiglyptes jugularis

  This woodpecker lives in Southeast Asian forests. Males have a red cheek stripe that females lack. It uses humid forest edges, secondary growth, and bamboo, searching bark for invertebrates.

• Green-breasted Mango Anthracothorax prevostii

  The Green-breasted Mango is a relatively large hummingbird of tropical American lowlands, found around forest edges and clearings.

• Scarlet-and-white Tanager Chrysothlypis salmoni

  This tanager occurs in humid lowland forest in Colombia and northern Ecuador. Males are red and white, while females replace the red areas with brown; birds gather in canopy flocks.

• Rusty-vented Canastero Asthenes dorbignyi

  It forages in rocky Andean scrub. In many subspecies, the back is brown, the underside is pale, and the flanks and vent are rufous.

• Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor

  The Cock-tailed Tyrant lives in South American grasslands. The male has a white face and underside, a black patch at the side of the breast, and a long tail; the female is brown with a short tail.

• Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti

  A wheatear that searches the ground for small prey in dry country. Males show clear black-and-white markings, while females are sandier.

• Bare-faced Ground Dove Metriopelia ceciliae

  A 17–18 cm dove with extensive orange bare skin around the eye and pale scaling on the back and wings. In Bolivia it uses dry slopes and grasslands and searches for food on the ground.

• Saturnine Antshrike Thamnomanes saturninus

  An antshrike with dark grey and black plumage in males and olive-brown plumage in females. It eats varied insects in South American lowland evergreen forest.

• Black Sparrowhawk Astur melanoleucus

  A large hawk of African forests and woodlands. It mainly takes birds, and in some areas also eats fish or carrion.

• Knysna Woodpecker Campethera notata

  This woodpecker is endemic to coastal South Africa. Its green back and wings have yellow marks, while the whitish underside has large black spots. It searches for ants in forest and dense scrub.

• Blue-throated Hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus

  A hummingbird of shrub patches in the southwestern Ecuadorian Andes. Males have a blue throat, while females show grey and white areas on the throat.

• Boulder Finch Idiopsar brachyurus

  This finch lives among boulder fields and high-altitude grasslands in the southern Andes. Its large bill is distinctive.

• Ivory-billed Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus flavigaster

  The Ivory-billed Woodcreeper has a long, pale bill and conspicuous white streaks on its back. In Mexican and Central American forests, it searches tree trunks as it climbs.

• Yellow-winged Flatbill Tolmomyias flavotectus

  Its type description records yellow-edged wing feathers and a grey crown mixed with green. It ranges from southern Nicaragua to western Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes, in lowland evergreen and secondary forest.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Snow Pigeon Columba leuconota

  The Snow Pigeon is a high-mountain pigeon often seen around cliffs and passes. Its dark head contrasts with a white neck and underside, and it occurs in pairs or small flocks.

• Fasciated Antshrike Cymbilaimus lineatus

  A lowland Neotropical forest antshrike. In a study in Panama, pairs foraged in the canopy, often among large liana tangles.

• Little Sparrowhawk Tachyspiza minulla

  This small woodland raptor is marked by a white rump. It darts among trees while hunting small birds and other small animals.

• Yellow-vented Woodpecker Veniliornis dignus

  The Yellow-vented Woodpecker is a small woodpecker distributed from Venezuela through the Andes to Peru. A Colombian regional guide describes its life in mountain and secondary forest.

• White-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus ensipennis

  This hummingbird occurs on Tobago and nearby areas. Males have a blue throat, while females are grayer, and both have conspicuous long white tail feathers. It hovers at flowers to take nectar and small insects.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.

• Dark-bellied Cinclodes Cinclodes patagonicus

  This cinclodes occurs in Chile and Argentina. Its brown body has fine barring, a white eyebrow and throat, and a cinnamon wing bar that is easier to see in flight. It searches for small aquatic prey around rivers, wetlands, and mountain valleys.

• Mistletoe Tyrannulet Zimmerius parvus

  A small tyrant flycatcher ranging from Central America to northwestern Colombia. It is seen alone or in pairs in the middle and upper foliage.