Meet the world’s animals.

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• Giant Conebill Conirostrum binghami

  

  In Peru, this conebill is strongly associated with Polylepis woodland. It has a long, pointed bill.

• East Amazonian Fire-eye Pyriglena leuconota

  The East Amazonian Fire-eye lives in evergreen forests of north-central and northeastern Brazil. Males are glossy black and females are reddish brown; both have a white patch on the back.

• Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulet Phylloscartes parkeri

  This small flycatcher is about 11.5 cm long. It ranges along the eastern Andean foothills of central and southeastern Peru and into adjacent northern Bolivia, using humid forest with tall canopy.

• Purplish-backed Quail-Dove Zentrygon lawrencii

  The Purplish-backed Quail-Dove is a plump gray ground dove. Its purple iridescent back, pale face with a dark moustache stripe, and reddish legs help identify it.

• Chestnut Woodpecker Celeus elegans

  This 26–32 cm woodpecker forages on trunks and branches by day, taking invertebrates from bark.

• Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus

  A small woodcreeper with a wedge-shaped bill that feeds in the understory of humid Amazonian forests.

• Ussher's Flycatcher Muscicapa ussheri

  This flycatcher lives in West African lowland forest. It hunts insects from high dead branches near forest edges and clearings.

• White-throated Canary Crithagra albogularis

  The White-throated Canary is a pale canary with little streaking, a white throat, and a greenish-yellow rump. It feeds on seeds and other foods in shrubland, semi-desert, and related habitats of southwestern Africa.

• White-bearded Hermit Phaethornis hispidus

  This widespread Amazonian hummingbird has gray underparts and a white stripe down the throat. A Colombian account adds forest, edge, secondary growth and seasonally flooded forest as habitats.

• Amazonian Pygmy Owl Glaucidium hardyi

  The 14–15 cm Amazonian Pygmy Owl lives in the canopy of primary tropical forest across much of Amazonia. It is partly active by day; one nest in French Guiana was in an old woodpecker hole.

• Augur Buzzard Buteo augur

  The Augur Buzzard is notable for its reddish tail and variable underparts. It watches from perches or scans from the air for small prey.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.

• Black-tailed Antbird Myrmoborus melanurus

  This antbird forages in dense thickets and scrub along lowland Amazonian rivers. Males are dark, while females are rufous-brown above; both sexes have a white throat, pale wing bars, and red irises.

• Grey-breasted Flycatcher Lathrotriccus griseipectus

  This flycatcher lives in forest understory from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, whitish belly, and white wingbars.

• Pacific Imperial Pigeon Ducula pacifica

  A large pigeon of Pacific islands, it has a pale gray to pinkish head and underside and darker gray wings and back. It feeds on fruit.

• Ochre-backed Woodpecker Celeus ochraceus

  This woodpecker occurs in northern and north-eastern Brazil. Males have a red cheek stripe, and a study in Maranhão recorded the species excavating nest cavities in tree trunks.

• Bolivian Earthcreeper Tarphonomus harterti

  The Bolivian Earthcreeper is recorded on rocky slopes within dry scrub in Bolivia. It has a pale line above the eye and a brown underside, and the account says it favors sites with bromeliads growing at ground level.

• Tractrac Chat Emarginata tractrac

  A small chat of dry open country in southern Africa. The source lists five subspecies whose plumage differs.

• Yellow-throated Seedeater Crithagra flavigula

  This gray-brown seedeater has a pale yellow throat and a yellow rump visible in flight. It occurs locally in dry savanna, favoring rocky hillsides.

• 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.

• Elf Owl Micrathene whitneyi

  The Elf Owl is described as the world's smallest raptor. It hunts insects and other small prey at night and nests in old woodpecker holes and similar cavities.

• Fiji Goshawk Tachyspiza rufitorques

  This diurnal hawk is reported from open woodland, well-wooded farmland, suburbs, and parks. Audio records on Oiseaux.net are from Fiji.

• Temminck's Seedeater Sporophila falcirostris

  This small seedeater has a thick, curved bill; males are gray and females olive-brown. It eats bamboo seeds and moves in response to bamboo seeding.

• White-bibbed Antbird Myrmoderus loricatus

  It is endemic to Brazil, in Atlantic Forest from southern Bahia through Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, with nearby areas of Minas Gerais and São Paulo.