Meet the world’s animals.

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• White-crowned Robin-Chat Cossypha albicapillus

  

  This bird is marked by a white crown and rufous underparts. It ranges from western Africa into parts of eastern Africa, using open woodland and waterside thickets.

• Bolivian Tyrannulet Zimmerius bolivianus

  This small bird has olive-yellow upperparts and pale underparts. It uses the canopy and subcanopy of humid Andean forest from southeastern Peru into Bolivia.

• Black-faced Antbird Myrmoborus myotherinus

  The Black-faced Antbird lives in humid Amazonian forests. Males are bluish grey and black, while females are brown with a black mask, so the sexes have different plumage. It forages in the middle and upper canopy for insects and other arthropods.

• Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense

  A woodpecker with a striking golden-looking back.

• Chestnut-breasted Coronet Boissonneaua matthewsii

  The Chestnut-breasted Coronet is a mountain hummingbird with a green head and back and chestnut underparts. It feeds from the forest understory into the canopy.

• Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon Ducula rosacea

  The Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon is an island pigeon with pale pink on its head and upper neck. It feeds on fruit in forests of the Lesser Sunda Islands.

• Beaudouin's Snake Eagle Circaetus beaudouini

  This snake eagle lives in the sparsely wooded Sahel. It searches from prominent perches and takes snakes and other small prey.

• Red-shouldered Spinetail Synallaxis hellmayri

  This spinetail occurs in dry scrub and open woodland. A 2017 observation is documented in northeastern Brazil.

• Green-and-gold Tanager Tangara schrankii

  The Green-and-gold Tanager is a small bird of western Amazonian forest. Its bright colors are shared by both sexes. A National Aquarium account says it forages in the canopy and descends to lower places to nest.

• Dusky-blue Flycatcher Muscicapa comitata

  The Dusky-blue Flycatcher (Bradornis comitatus) occurs in the Afrotropical region. It uses forest edges, secondary growth and farmland, and catches invertebrates in the air.

• Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis ecaudatus

  The Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant has a grey crown and a very short tail. In Amazonia it forages in the midstory and subcanopy of mature forest and tall second growth.

• Narrow-billed Antwren Formicivora iheringi

  This small antwren inhabits Brazilian scrub and woodland. It searches foliage for small invertebrates.

• Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus nanus

  This small woodpecker searches tree bark for invertebrates in forests and more open woodland.

• White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus

  This hummingbird lives in the mountains from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males have a purple throat; females have green throat spots.

• Tolima Dove Leptotila conoveri

  The Tolima Dove lives in the Colombian Andes. Its head is greyish, and it occurs in humid montane forest and along forest edges.

• Gray-bellied Hawk Accipiter poliogaster

  The Gray-bellied Hawk is a large forest hawk. Adults are dark above and pale below.

• Slender-billed Miner Geositta tenuirostris

  This miner walks over rocky high-altitude grasslands in the Andes, searching for food on the ground. It is recorded at 3,000–4,000 m in northwestern Argentina.

• Blue-and-black Tanager Tangara vassorii

  The Blue-and-black Tanager ranges along the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It is mostly blue with black wings and tail and occurs in Andean scrub and elfin forest edges.

• Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea

  The Ferruginous Flycatcher has a gray head, orange-brown body, and pale ring around the eye. It perches at mid-height in montane forest openings, often near running water, and sallies out to catch insects.

• Puna Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola juninensis

  This terrestrial tyrant flycatcher lives in Andean grassland and steppe. It searches for insects in short runs and hops near rocky outcrops.

• Ancient Antwren Herpsilochmus gentryi

  The Ancient Antwren occurs in lowland forest in southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru. It has yellowish sides of the head and underside, with white wing bars on a gray back.

• Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker Yungipicus moluccensis

  A small woodpecker whose male has a red streak on the hindcrown. It usually searches tree trunks and branches alone or in pairs.

• Lucifer Hummingbird Calothorax lucifer

  The Lucifer Hummingbird occurs mainly in central and northern Mexico. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers.

• 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.