Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris

  

  A small raptor with a white and grey body and a black shoulder patch. It hovers over open ground while searching for rodents.

• White-throated Cacholote Pseudoseisura gutturalis

  This large ovenbird family member is recorded in Argentina's dry scrub and steppe. It is grey-brown, with a white throat and long pointed tail feathers.

• Flame-faced Tanager Tangara parzudakii

  The Flame-faced Tanager lives in montane forest on the eastern Andes. Peru Aves does not assign sex to its adult examples and describes an orange face, black throat, and greenish-buff underside. It lists the Peruvian form as subspecies urubambae.

• Miombo scrub-robin Erythropygia barbata

  A bird of broadleaf miombo woodland, with a brown back and a rufous chest.

• Southern Antpipit Corythopis delalandi

  A small forest bird of central and southeastern South America, it searches for food on the ground and in the lower forest layers. A regional study documented its distribution and habitat in the Yungas of Bolivia and Argentina.

• Bluish-slate Antshrike Thamnomanes schistogynus

  This antshrike inhabits forests in the southern Amazon basin. Males are uniformly bluish gray; females have gray heads, breasts, and upperparts with a rufous belly. It forages in the forest midstory, usually with mixed-species flocks.

• Arizona Woodpecker Leuconotopicus arizonae

  This woodpecker lives mainly in Mexico’s Sierra Madre and reaches only a small part of southern Arizona and New Mexico. It has a wood-brown back and spotted underparts.

• Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii

  This small hummingbird occurs in the mountains of Colombia and Venezuela. The male has a rosy-magenta or purple throat above a white breast band.

• Yellow-eyed Pigeon Columba eversmanni

  The Yellow-eyed Pigeon breeds in Central Asia. In winter it moves south and uses open farmland, often in flocks.

• Rufous Crab Hawk Buteogallus aequinoctialis

  The Rufous Crab-hawk has a rufous belly and yellow feet. It searches for crabs in coastal mangroves and swoops down from a branch to catch them.

• Blackish Cinclodes Cinclodes antarcticus

  The Falkland Islands nominate form of the Blackish Cinclodes is dark brown with a paler, speckled throat. On rat-free islands it forages along the coast and may follow people.

• Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater Sporophila torqueola

  The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater inhabits western Mexico’s grassy areas; males show a white collar above a dark breast band.

• Sentinel Rock Thrush Monticola explorator

  Males have blue-gray and orange plumage, while females are gray-brown with pale mottling. It lives in grassland and rocky slopes and forages on the ground.

• Pale-tipped Inezia Inezia caudata

  This small bird inhabits wooded areas near water in northern South America. A 2000 study treated the forms now matched to CoL ID 3PP56 as caudata and intermedia, and compared their plumage and ranges.

• Striated Antbird Drymophila devillei

  This antbird occurs mainly in southeastern Peru, and also in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador. It uses the forest understory, often in stands of Guadua bamboo.

• Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus

  The Cream-colored Woodpecker lives in Amazonian floodplain forest. The sexes look similar, but the male has a red malar stripe.

• Longuemare's Sunangel Heliangelus clarisse

  Longuemare’s Sunangel is a hummingbird of the Perijá Mountains in Colombia and Venezuela. Males have a violet-red throat set off from the chest by a white band. The habitat assessment includes forest edges and secondary vegetation but says some forest is still needed.

• Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyraceus

  The Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove has a gray-green head and breast set against a violet crown patch.

• Gray-headed Kite Leptodon cayanensis

  The Gray-headed Kite is a raptor with a gray head and white underparts. It soars over forest and takes insects, reptiles, and small birds.

• Montane Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia striaticollis

  The Montane Foliage-gleaner forages in the middle and upper levels of humid montane forest, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Black-and-white Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa

  This seedeater uses scrub and forest edges on Peru's eastern Andes. Males are black and white; females and juveniles are olive-brown, and males can become browner after breeding.

• White-bellied Shortwing Myiomela major

  This shortwing occurs in the hills of southern India. Its account describes a slaty-blue back and breast, white belly, and rufous-brown flanks; birds are met singly or in pairs among undergrowth and small trees.

• Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis

  The Panama Flycatcher is a tyrant flycatcher found from southwestern Costa Rica to northern Venezuela. It uses semi-open scrub and woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• Manu Antbird Cercomacra manu

  This antbird is common in bamboo patches of southeastern Peru. It forages almost exclusively in stands of Guadua bamboo.