Meet the world’s animals.

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• Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus

  

  A large woodpecker of North America that searches for ants and beetles on the ground as well as on tree trunks. In flight, its white rump and the color of its wing and tail shafts are visible.

• Olive-spotted Hummingbird Talaphorus chlorocercus

  The Olive-spotted Hummingbird is recorded in scrub and secondary vegetation on islands along Amazonian rivers. It has green upperparts, gray underparts, and olive spots on the throat and chest.

• Rothschild's Swift Cypseloides rothschildi

  Rothschild's Swift is a dark, sooty swift. It occurs above humid forests on the eastern side of the Andes, from Bolivia to northwestern Argentina.

• Papuan White-eye Zosterops novaeguineae

  In nominate-race specimens, the upperparts are yellowish green, the breast and flanks pale gray, and the throat and undertail yellow. The species is recorded from lowland second growth and farmland to mountain forest on New Guinea.

• Brown-headed Gull Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus

  The Brown-headed Gull develops a brown head in breeding plumage. It moves between its breeding range and wintering areas with the seasons.

• Maranon Pigeon Patagioenas oenops

  The Maranon Pigeon occurs in the upper Marañón Valley of the northern Andes. It feeds on plant seeds in woodland and along forest edges.

• Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps

  The Ruddy-headed Goose occurs at the southern end of South America and on the Falkland Islands. The mainland population breeds in the south and winters in south-western Buenos Aires Province.

• Northern White-faced Owl Ptilopsis leucotis

  The Northern White-faced Owl is a nocturnal owl of dry savanna and open woodland in sub-Saharan Africa. It occurs in both light and dark plumage morphs.

• Goliath Coucal Centropus goliath

  The Goliath Coucal is a large cuckoo of the northern Moluccas. It is mostly black, with bluish wings and tail and a white wing patch.

• Chestnut-throated Apalis Apalis porphyrolaema

  At Mau Narok in Kenya, this small warbler was recorded in forest, with fledged young remaining in family groups for a time.

• Assam Laughingthrush Trochalopteron chrysopterum

  Its main reported range is northeastern India and adjacent Myanmar. Southern China is included in some taxonomic treatments.

• Sooty Robin Turdus nigrescens

  A thrush of the mountains of Costa Rica and far western Panama. Males are dark brown, with yellow bill and eye-ring, and search among leaf litter for prey.

• Red-fronted Antpecker Parmoptila rubrifrons

  The Red-fronted Antpecker is a small bird that searches for ants in low forest-edge growth. Males have a red forehead, while females have a spotted underside.

• Ferruginous Partridge Caloperdix oculeus

  This partridge is striking for its orange head and breast and black-and-white scaling on the back and sides. It forages on the ground in lowland and middle-elevation forests.

• Black-collared Starling Gracupica nigricollis

  The Black-collared Starling is a starling marked by a black-and-white collar and yellow skin around the eyes. It forages on the ground and also occurs in parks and farmland.

• Cape Canary Serinus canicollis

  The Cape Canary is a small finch of open habitats and gardens in southern Africa. It eats seeds and nests in shrubs and other vegetation during the breeding season.

• Dark Chanting Goshawk Melierax metabates

  The Dark Chanting Goshawk is a daytime raptor. It watches for prey from a perch and gives a ringing call during the breeding season.

• Bar-breasted Honeyeater Ramsayornis fasciatus

  The Bar-breasted Honeyeater has gray bars on its chest and a slender, slightly down-curved bill. This small Australian bird feeds on nectar and insects.

• White-browed Meadowlark Leistes superciliaris

  This icterid lives in open grasslands of South America. The male is black with red patches and a white eyebrow, while the female is brown-toned and looks different.

• Pacific Hornero Furnarius cinnamomeus

  This hornero ranges from western Ecuador to southwestern Colombia and northwestern Peru. It is cinnamon-colored, with a grey-brown crown and white eyebrow and throat. It searches on the ground for arthropods and snails, and builds an oven-shaped mud nest.

• Fairy Paradise Kingfisher Tanysiptera nympha

  The Fairy Paradise Kingfisher is striking for its red underparts and long tail streamers. It lives in lowland forest and mangroves on New Guinea.

• Gray-winged Inca-Finch Incaspiza ortizi

  This finch lives in dry scrub in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. Its gray and brown body has a dark facial pattern, and it searches for food in low shrubs.

• Bearded Scrub Robin Erythropygia quadrivirgata

  The Bearded Scrub Robin inhabits thickets and broad-leaved woodland in eastern and southern Africa. The mainland form has white eyebrows, moustachial stripes, and throat bordered by dark facial lines, plus white wing patches.

• Virginia Rail Rallus limicola

  Virginia Rails forage by probing shallow water and mud in marshes, where emergent plants such as cattails and bulrushes provide cover.