Meet the world’s animals.

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• Inca Dove Columbina inca

  

  The Inca Dove is a small dove that walks on the ground to find seeds in dry, open places. Its feathers have a scaly-looking pattern.

• Crowned Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix frontalis

  This small Andean bird occurs in forest and scrub. The central Peru-to-Bolivia population has been proposed as a separate species.

• Brassy-breasted Tanager Tangara desmaresti

  The green plumage has black streaks, a turquoise forehead and eye area, a brassy ochre breast, and a yellow line down the belly.

• Chestnut Woodpecker Celeus elegans

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

• Ash-throated Antwren Herpsilochmus parkeri

  This antwren lives in humid montane forest in northeastern Peru. A protected-area guide records it in mixed flocks in the canopy and middle levels at Alto Mayo.

• Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle Spizaetus melanoleucus

  The Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle has a white head with a black crest. It watches from trees for mammals, birds, and reptiles.

• Araucaria Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura setaria

  A furnariid of southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina, associated with Araucaria woodland and plantations.

• Amur stonechat Saxicola stejnegeri

  A small bird that uses exposed perches in grassland.

• Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti

  This small hummingbird lives in the highlands from southern Mexico to northern Central America. Males have a gleaming wine-red throat, and the birds use mountain forest edges and scrub where they feed on nectar.

• Grey-fronted Dove Leptotila rufaxilla

  The Grey-fronted Dove is a ground-dwelling dove widespread in South America. A study in Acre found nests near forest edges and reported that breeding records peaked in the rainy season.

• Choco Sirystes Sirystes albogriseus

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits lowland forest in the Chocó, from eastern Panama through western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador.

• Sulphur-throated Finch Sicalis taczanowskii

  A finch of northwestern Peru's tropical savanna. It has gray-brown upperparts, light-brown underparts, and a yellow face and throat.

• African Grey Woodpecker Dendropicos goertae

  The African Grey Woodpecker lives in wooded habitats across parts of western, eastern, and central Africa and feeds mainly on insects such as termites.

• White-shouldered Fire-eye Pyriglena leucoptera

  This antbird occurs in eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. Males are black and females brown; both have red eyes. It searches for insects and other prey near the forest floor.

• Bonelli's Eagle Aquila fasciata

  A medium-sized eagle. Adults have dark brown upperparts and a white, dark-streaked underside; juveniles are much paler.

• Canyon Canastero Asthenes pudibunda

  The Canyon Canastero lives in the Andes of Peru and Chile and searches dry montane scrub and rocky ground for arthropods. Its plumage is brown and rufous; the orange chin patch can be hard to see.

• Little Rock Thrush Monticola rufocinereus

  The Little Rock Thrush lives around rocky hills and wooded ravines. Its blue-gray throat extends onto the breast, and its tail is rufous.

• Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber

  This small hummingbird is about 8 cm long and ranges through Amazonia and the eastern Andean foothills. It is often found in the understory and at forest edges.

• Brush Bronzewing Phaps elegans

  A dark brown pigeon with iridescent wing patches. In coastal South Australia it uses dense woodland and scrub and feeds mainly on plant seeds.

• Large Elaenia Elaenia spectabilis

  This South American flycatcher has three white wing bars and a weak or absent crest. In Bolivia it is recorded in woodland, second growth and forest edges, where it takes insects and fruit.

• Genovesa Cactus Finch Geospiza propinqua

  The Genovesa Cactus Finch is restricted to Genovesa Island in the Galápagos. Its long, narrow bill is compressed from side to side, and the bird uses dry lowland scrub where prickly-pear cactus grows.

• Scaly-breasted Woodpecker Celeus grammicus

  The Scaly-breasted Woodpecker occurs across the Amazon region. Adults are chestnut to rufous, with dark bars above and below; males have a red malar stripe.

• Bare-crowned Antbird Gymnocichla nudiceps

  The Bare-crowned Antbird is a lowland antbird occurring from Central America into northern Colombia. The male has a bare blue area on the crown.

• Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus

  The sexes look different: males are gray, while females are brown with a white rump.