Meet the world’s animals.

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• Sunda Blue Flycatcher Cyornis caerulatus

  

  This flycatcher lives in evergreen tropical forest on Borneo and Sumatra. Males are blue and orange, while females are mainly brown; birds sally from canopy perches to catch flying insects.

• Polynesian Ground Dove Pampusana erythroptera

  The Polynesian Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon of the Tuamotu Islands. It hides in dense cover and bursts out with loud wingbeats when disturbed.

• Dot-winged Antwren Microrhopias quixensis

  This antwren lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. Males are black with white wing markings; females have a slate-gray back and rufous underparts.

• Black-chested Snake Eagle Circaetus pectoralis

  This African eagle has a black chest band and a white belly. It spots and catches snakes and other prey on the ground.

• Japanese green woodpecker Picus awokera

  A woodpecker found only in Japan, with a green back. It taps tree trunks for insects and also eats ants on the ground.

• Outcrop Sabrewing Campylopterus calcirupicola

  The original paper described it as a distinct species in the Campylopterus largipennis complex and compared it with Diamantina Sabrewing: it is smaller and has longer pale tail tips. eBird later changed its English name from Dry-forest Sabrewing to Outcrop Sabrewing.

• Black-backed Bush Tanager Urothraupis stolzmanni

  The Black-backed Bush Tanager has a black head, back, wings, and tail, with a broad white throat and white marks on grey underparts. A 1997 survey at Guandera in northeastern Ecuador recorded it in primary forest and páramo.

• Freckle-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticollis

  This South American ovenbird is found in shrub cover along grasslands and wetland edges and builds its nest in shrubs.

• Lesser Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis murinus

  The Lesser Shrike-Tyrant is a tyrant flycatcher that catches insects on the ground. A species page from the National University of the Litoral describes it alone or in pairs, making short runs to catch insects and also perching at the tops of shrubs.

• Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

  Its white rump and black-and-white tail stand out in flight; it searches for insects on the ground and from low perches.

• Chilean Pigeon Patagioenas araucana

  A large pigeon with a vinous chest and a white nape band. It uses forest and gathers in flocks, often staying quiet in foliage.

• Glossy Antshrike Sakesphorus luctuosus

  This antshrike occurs in Amazonian Brazil. The white tips of its tail feathers vary geographically, tending to be more extensive in northern populations.

• Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus

  A hawk with broad wings and a rounded tail. In Japan, it breeds in low mountain forests north of Shikoku and digs up nests of ground-nesting wasps to eat.

• Andaman Woodpecker Dryocopus hodgei

  A large woodpecker with a black body, red crest, and long bill. It searches for food mainly high in forest trees.

• Black-throated Mango Anthracothorax nigricollis

  The Black-throated Mango has a black throat and chest in the male, while the female has a dark stripe down her white underparts. It takes nectar and flying insects and also visits gardens.

• Gray-and-gold Tanager Poecilostreptus palmeri

  Adult Gray-and-gold Tanagers have pearly-grey and black-speckled plumage with gold across the chest. They feed on fruit, berries, and arthropods, foraging in pairs or small groups in the canopy.

• Spectacled Prickletail Siptornis striaticollis

  The Spectacled Prickletail occurs on the eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It searches for food in the middle and lower canopy of humid montane forest.

• Streak-throated Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes striaticollis

  This Andean flycatcher occurs at high elevations. It searches for insects and small vertebrates in scrub and along forest edges.

• Arabian Wheatear Oenanthe lugentoides

  This wheatear has a white crown and a black facial mask that extends onto the wings. It is resident in the deserts and rocky hills of southern Arabia, where it feeds mainly on fruit and insects.

• Thick-billed Green Pigeon Treron curvirostra

  The Thick-billed Green Pigeon is a green pigeon that feeds on figs and other fruit in the forest canopy. Males and females have different plumage patterns.

• Zeledon's Antbird Hafferia zeledoni

  Zeledon's Antbird inhabits humid forest from Nicaragua through Panama to western Colombia and western Ecuador. Males are black, females are brown, and the species forages low in the forest.

• Philippine Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus philippensis

  The Philippine Hawk-Eagle is a forest eagle found only on Luzon. Adults have a long black crest and rufous underparts marked with dark streaks.

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dryobates minor

  A sparrow-sized woodpecker with black-and-white bars on its back and wings. In Britain it searches for food high in woodlands with plenty of deadwood.

• White-tufted Sunbeam Aglaeactis castelnaudii

  The White-tufted Sunbeam lives in humid scrub in valleys of central and southern Peru. Its white breast feathers stand out; intermediate-plumaged birds are reported where it overlaps another sunbeam.