Meet the world’s animals.

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• Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maurus

  

  The Siberian Stonechat uses open grassland and scrub. Males change plumage between the breeding season and winter, while females and young birds are browner.

• Geelvink Fruit Dove Ptilinopus speciosus

  This dove is recorded from islands in Geelvink Bay off northwestern New Guinea. It lives in forest and semi-open habitat and eats fruit. The historical description gives adult males a lilac breast and belly and a yellow, white-edged throat patch.

• White-plumed Antbird Pithys albifrons

  The White-plumed Antbird follows army-ant columns while foraging in the lower forest understory of Amazonia. Adults have long white plumes along the face, and chestnut neck, underparts, and tail.

• Black-faced Hawk Leucopternis melanops

  A small, stocky hawk with a black facial marking and orange cere, it searches for small prey in wet forest.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• Brown Inca Coeligena wilsoni

  This hummingbird inhabits the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. It has brown plumage and a white spot behind the eye, and uses humid montane forest and cloud forest.

• Bananaquit Coereba flaveola

  This small nectar-feeding bird has a white eyebrow and yellow rump. It perches while feeding from flowers.

• Narrow-billed Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes angustirostris

  This woodcreeper occurs widely in South America. It climbs trunks and branches with its long, narrow, slightly curved bill while searching for insects and spiders.

• Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus

  This flycatcher occurs in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peru Aves account says it forages at different heights along forest edges and in second growth.

• Cape Rock Thrush Monticola rupestris

  The Cape Rock-Thrush lives in rocky areas and grassland in southern Africa, often in pairs or small groups. Males have a blue-gray head and throat with a brown back; females have buff underparts.

• White-fronted Quail-Dove Geotrygon leucometopia

  This dove has a purplish-blue sheen on the back and a white forehead. It walks on the leaf litter of humid montane forest in Hispaniola.

• Cocha Antshrike Thamnophilus praecox

  This antshrike was photographically documented at Bretaña in Loreto, northeastern Peru, in 2022. The male is black and the female chestnut; the record site was whitewater-flooded forest.

• Short-toed Snake Eagle Circaetus gallicus

  An eagle with a large head and broad wings. It hovers to search for snakes and lizards on the ground.

• Okinawa Woodpecker Dendrocopos noguchii

  This woodpecker lives only in forests of northern Okinawa Island. It searches trunks and branches for food, eating nuts and insects.

• Magenta-throated Woodstar Calliphlox bryantae

  This small hummingbird occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adult males have a magenta throat, white collar, and long forked tail. The species uses forest edges, secondary growth, and scrub, and is described as solitary. Some checklists place it in Philodice rather than Calliphlox.

• Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager Dubusia taeniata

  This mountain tanager has a dull-black central crown and back. The Bogotá guide records it in local forest and describes insects and fruit as food. Following the 2025 split, its range runs from southwestern Venezuela to far northern Peru.

• Double-banded Greytail Xenerpestes minlosi

  The Double-banded Greytail is a small ovenbird recorded in eastern Panama and parts of Colombia. A field study in Panama documented a nest in a heavily cleared town, built in a tree fork.

• Planalto Tyrannulet Phyllomyias fasciatus

  This small bird has gray to olive-brown upperparts and a pale eye-ring. It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, feeding on insects and small fruits in the canopy of humid lowland forest.

• White-tailed Rubythroat Luscinia pectoralis

  Bangladesh’s bird Red List records this bird as a winter visitor to the country. In its photograph, the male has a greyish body, a black face and throat, and a bright red throat patch.

• Palau Ground Dove Pampusana canifrons

  This ground dove lives on Palau’s islands. A male specimen was described with a grey head and breast and a bronze-toned back.

• East Andean Antbird Drymophila caudata

  The East Andean Antbird is a small antbird of Colombia’s eastern Andean slopes. Males are dark, while females are browner or more rufous.

• Pale Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus

  The Pale Chanting Goshawk is a raptor of open, dry country in southern Africa. It watches for prey from an exposed perch.

• Ladder-backed Woodpecker Dryobates scalaris

  This small woodpecker lives in dry places in the southwestern United States. Its back has black-and-white bars that resemble a ladder.

• Dusky Hummingbird Phaeoptila sordida

  This hummingbird occurs in Mexico. Its upperparts are pale green, with a whitish stripe and dark patch behind the eye. It uses dry areas with scattered trees or shrubs and feeds mainly on nectar.