Meet the world’s animals.

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• Olive-faced Flatbill Tolmomyias viridiceps

  

  In a Colombian photo, the nominate form is shown with an olive back, yellow wing bars and a pale lower bill with a black tip. A 2024 study reported one nest each in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

• Large Green Pigeon Treron capellei

  This large green pigeon has olive plumage and golden lines on its wings. Males have a yellow-orange breast; it feeds on figs in lowland forests.

• Blue Whistling Thrush Myophonus caeruleus

  The plumage is deep blue with shining pale blue spots on the head, throat, and breast. It lives by wooded streams and can also occur in leafy urban areas.

• 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.

• White-browed Piculet Sasia ochracea

  The White-browed Piculet is a small woodpecker with green upperparts, a rufous rump, and a white stripe behind the eye. It searches for ants and other small prey in low, dense vegetation near bamboo or water.

• Black-banded Owl Strix huhula

  The Black-banded Owl is a nocturnal forest owl of South America. Its dark body is densely marked with wavy white bars.

• Unicolored Antwren Myrmotherula unicolor

  The Unicolored Antwren occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil. It searches leaves for food and also probes creases in dead foliage for small arthropods.

• Beautiful Rosefinch Carpodacus pulcherrimus

  The Himalayan Beautiful Rosefinch is a seed-eating bird of Himalayan shrubland. Some populations move seasonally.

• White-capped Parrot Pionus seniloides

  It has a white forehead and a gray-scaled crown. A field survey recorded it in montane cloud forest in southern Ecuador.

• Scissor-tailed Kite Chelictinia riocouri

  This slim grey-and-white kite has a long, deeply forked tail. It is a daytime bird of the dry Sahel, where it feeds mainly on invertebrates in semi-desert and sparsely grassed plains.

• Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer

  The Blue-tufted Starthroat has a long, slightly curved black bill. Males have a violet-glittering throat and blue feathers on the sides of the neck and breast. It feeds mainly on nectar and also catches small insects in flight.

• Straight-billed Reedhaunter Limnoctites rectirostris

  A secretive ovenbird of southeastern South American wetlands. It is closely associated with stands of Eryngium, where it nests and feeds.

• Sichuan Hill Partridge Arborophila rufipectus

  The Sichuan Hill Partridge is a pheasant that lives in forests of southwestern China. Its white throat and russet breast patch help distinguish it from related hill-partridges.

• Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer

  The Dusky-capped Flycatcher has a gray chest, yellow belly, and rusty highlights in the wings. It forages within tree foliage for insects.

• Shy Ground Dove Pampusana stairi

  The Shy Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling dove of Polynesian islands. It searches for seeds, fruit, and insects on the ground and in the forest understory.

• Cryptic Flycatcher Ficedula crypta

  This elusive flycatcher lives on Mindanao in mountain forest. It is recorded alone or in pairs in low vegetation on wet ravine slopes.

• Yellow-throated Tanager Iridosornis analis

  The Yellow-throated Tanager forages alone or in pairs in the middle and lower levels of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker Dendrocopos macei

  The Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker is a small woodpecker. It is active by day in forests and searches for invertebrates on tree trunks.

• Spotted Owlet Athene brama

  A small owl with gray-brown plumage marked by white spots. It is active at night and hunts insects and small vertebrates.

• Sincora Antwren Formicivora grantsaui

  The Sincora Antwren lives in rocky highland grasslands in Bahia, eastern Brazil. A male's white eyebrow continues along the sides of the throat and breast, separating its black face and underparts from browner upperparts. Females have black streaks on the sides of the throat and breast.

• Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leucoptera

  The Two-barred Crossbill uses its crossed bill to open conifer cones and take their seeds.

• Caica Parrot Pyrilia caica

  Adults have a dark head and a broad yellowish collar. Juveniles do not yet have the adult’s black facial mask.

• Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus

  A harrier that breeds from eastern Europe to Central Asia. Males are pale gray, while females and juveniles are browner; it lives in open country.

• Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica

  This hummingbird occurs in separate areas from Central America into northwestern South America. Males have violet or green crowns and backs, while females have grey throats and breasts; the birds feed on nectar and small invertebrates.