Meet the world’s animals.

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• Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

  

  A large woodpecker with a red crest and white neck stripes that searches dead wood for ants.

• Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina

  The Tennessee Warbler is a small bird that breeds in Canada’s boreal forests. Breeding males show a gray head and pale eyebrow, while females and nonbreeding birds look more yellow-green overall.

• Fiji Parrotfinch Erythrura pealii

  The Fiji Parrotfinch has a green body with a red head, rump, and tail. It comes to open grassland to feed mainly on grass seeds.

• Rufous Babbler Argya subrufa

  This babbler has rich brown upperparts and rufous underparts. In forests and thickets of the Western Ghats, groups forage on the ground.

• Bar-bellied Woodcreeper Hylexetastes stresemanni

  This large woodcreeper occurs in humid Amazonian lowland forest. It has a large head, a short, large bill, and a short tail.

• Yellow-footed Flycatcher Muscicapa sethsmithi

  This flycatcher was recorded in the Korup area of southwestern Cameroon. The 1994 study reports it in treefall gaps and small forest clearings, alone or in pairs.

• Black-capped Lory Lorius lory

  The Black-capped Lory is a parrot that visits flowering trees in forests to feed on nectar and fruit. It moves in pairs or small groups.

• Sharpe's Rosefinch Carpodacus verreauxii

  Sharpe's Rosefinch uses scrub above the treeline and mountain meadows in southwestern China. Males are reddish, while females are grey-brown and streaked.

• Red-crowned Amazon Amazona viridigenalis

  The Red-crowned Amazon is a green parrot with a striking red forehead. It can be seen flying to and from roosts in the morning and evening.

• Fawn-breasted Brilliant Heliodoxa rubinoides

  This hummingbird occurs in Andean cloud forest. Females resemble males but have more green spotting below, and their pink throat patch may be smaller or absent.

• Violet Cuckoo Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus

  The Violet Cuckoo is notable for the male’s violet gloss and barred underside. It uses the canopy and lays its eggs in other birds’ nests.

• Rufous-banded Honeyeater Conopophila albogularis

  It has a gray head, white throat, and broad rufous breast band. It occurs in mangroves, swamps, and riparian forest.

• Mottled Owl Strix virgata

  The Mottled Owl is a medium-sized owl with brown eyes and vertical streaks on its chest and throat. It is active at night and hunts insects and small animals from perches along forest edges. Its native range extends from Mexico through Central and South America.

• Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata

  The Peruvian Tern occurs along the Humboldt Current, from southern Ecuador to northern Chile. It is a small tern whose breeding sites also include dry plains inland from the coast.

• Common Purple-banded Sunbird Cinnyris bifasciatus

  This sunbird is seen from forest to savanna. Males show iridescent green plumage with maroon and blue breast bands; females are paler.

• Chihuahuan Meadowlark Sturnella lilianae

  This meadowlark is common in dry grasslands. It has pale brown, mottled upperparts and yellow underparts with a bold black V across the chest. It forages on the ground for seeds, grains, and insects.

• Green-backed Sparrow Arremonops chloronotus

  This sparrow ranges from southeastern Mexico to Belize and Honduras. Its upperparts are olive to grass green, and the head is black-striped. A study in Campeche found three nests on the ground near thickets.

• Ecuadorian Rail Rallus aequatorialis

  This rail is recorded from southern Colombia through Ecuador and coastal Peru. It hides in dense grass and reeds and is found alone or in well-separated pairs.

• Violaceous Jay Cyanocorax violaceus

  The Violaceous Jay has a black head and face contrasting with a pale nape. In Bolivia it is recorded in small flocks near rivers and forest edges.

• 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.

• African Goshawk Aerospiza tachiro

  The African Goshawk is a widespread medium-sized African hawk. Its plumage varies by sex, age, and region.

• Green Cochoa Cochoa viridis

  The Green Cochoa lives in moist forest, often near streams. Males combine green and blue plumage, while females have brown wings and a blue tail.

• Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala

  This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.

• 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.