Meet the world’s animals.

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• Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus

  

  The Hooded Vulture is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa. It feeds mainly on animal carcasses and also occurs near human settlements.

• Red-backed Flameback Dinopium psarodes

  This Sri Lankan woodpecker is the red-backed form. It is most widespread in the wet zone, while birds in the north-central contact area can show intermediate plumage.

• Hispaniolan Mango Anthracothorax dominicus

  The Hispaniolan Mango is a large hummingbird found on Hispaniola. Males show an iridescent green throat, while females differ in tail and underpart pattern.

• Lemon-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus icteronotus

  A tanager ranging from Colombia through Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It eats fruit in thickets and along moist forest edges.

• Curve-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus procurvoides

  It has a long, strongly curved red bill.

• Yellow-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus flavigularis

  The Yellow-throated Spadebill is a small bird of cloud-forest understory in the Andes. Its range is patchy; a 2002 field study recorded it at 1,370 m on the Río Rumiyaco in Colombia.

• Karoo Scrub Robin Erythropygia coryphoeus

  The Karoo Scrub Robin lives in dry shrubland in South Africa and southern Namibia. It searches for insects among low bushes and on the ground. The pool's older genus name is updated to Cercotrichas coryphaeus as used by the source.

• Tambourine Dove Turtur tympanistria

  The Tambourine Dove is a shy dove of woodland and thickets in sub-Saharan Africa and the Comoros. It often forages on the ground and is usually seen alone or in pairs.

• Bar-crested Antshrike Thamnophilus multistriatus

  This antshrike occurs in Colombia and Venezuela. It uses premontane tropical forest, dry-forest borders, and coffee forest, moving from the understorey to the canopy.

• Henst's Goshawk Astur henstii

  A large hawk 52–62 cm long. It lives in Madagascar's forests, including eastern rainforest and western dry forest. It is active by day and hunts vertebrates.

• White-wedged Piculet Picumnus albosquamatus

  This small piculet has grey upperparts and evenly scalloped underparts. At a nest studied in southeastern Brazil, both adults fed the chicks.

• Black-bellied Hummingbird Eupherusa nigriventris

  The Black-bellied Hummingbird inhabits mountain forest on Costa Rica's Caribbean side. Males often forage in the canopy and differ from females in underpart color.

• Turquoise Dacnis Dacnis hartlaubi

  The Turquoise Dacnis is endemic to Colombia’s Andes. Adult males are blue-green and black, while females are mostly brown above; its diet is still poorly known.

• Scaled Spinetail Cranioleuca muelleri

  The Scaled Spinetail is restricted to Brazil’s lower Amazon. Its rufous crown and tail contrast with a scaly-looking pale underside. It searches for arthropods in flooded forest undergrowth and mid-storey, while breeding details remain poorly known.

• Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi

  This flycatcher inhabits dry woodland and scrub from Mexico to northwestern Central America. It resembles related Myiarchus flycatchers; the yellow on the belly helps distinguish it.

• White-tailed Flycatcher Cyornis concretus

  This flycatcher ranges from the eastern Himalayas through southern China and Southeast Asia. A 2021 taxonomic paper transferred it to the genus Leucoptilon; its current name is Leucoptilon concretum.

• Atoll Fruit Dove Ptilinopus coralensis

  The Atoll Fruit Dove has a pink to purple crown and yellow belly. It lives in Tuamotu atoll forests and coconut groves, eating fruit, leaves, flowers, and insects.

• Band-tailed Antshrike Thamnophilus melanothorax

  Male Band-tailed Antshrikes are black, with white shoulder and wing spots and a broad white band near the end of the tail. The species occurs in the northeastern Amazon and uses forest undergrowth with vines.

• Steller's sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus

  An eagle with a massive yellow bill. It breeds along the northern Sea of Okhotsk and winters in places including northern Japan.

• Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus

  The Cream-colored Woodpecker lives in Amazonian floodplain forest. The sexes look similar, but the male has a red malar stripe.

• Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae

  This small hummingbird is endemic to Peru. It is recorded on the eastern Andean slopes in humid montane forest and scrub at 2,800–3,550 m.

• Coal-crested Finch Charitospiza eucosma

  A small finch of Brazil's Cerrado. In Bolivia it has been recorded at a few scattered sites in the north, where it also searches the ground in young growth after fires.

• Tepui Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla roraimae

  This ovenbird lives in forests around the tepuis. Adults are unstreaked, with a pale throat and eyebrow contrasting with the darker body. It probes arboreal bromeliads and bamboo node sheaths and gleans branches and vines.

• Unadorned Flycatcher Myiophobus inornatus

  A small flycatcher of the eastern Andes, from southeastern Peru to northern Bolivia.