Meet the world’s animals.

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• Patagonian Forest Earthcreeper Upucerthia saturatior

  

  This earthcreeper inhabits Patagonian forest. A primary study distinguishes it from the related open-country species by traits including its short black bill and breeding habitat.

• European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

  The European Pied Flycatcher is a woodland migrant. In British breeding areas, males are black and white with two white marks on the forehead; females are more subdued brown and white.

• Speckled Hummingbird Adelomyia melanogenys

  The inornata subspecies of the Speckled Hummingbird has dark sides to the head and a bronze-green back. In Argentina's Salta and Jujuy provinces, it uses high-elevation scrub and forest.

• Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus

  This large eagle has a crest and a barred tail. Studies in South Africa report that it feeds mainly on mammals.

• Metallic-green Tanager Tangara labradorides

  This small, iridescent green tanager is recorded in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It uses montane forest canopy and second growth and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Bananal Antbird Cercomacra ferdinandi

  An antbird recorded along the Araguaia and Tocantins river corridors of central Brazil, using dense river-edge thickets in flood-prone areas.

• Golden-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes hemichrysus

  This flycatcher is found in the montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its yellow underparts and dark stripe between the throat and lower cheek are distinctive. It eats fruit and insects and is usually seen in pairs or small family groups.

• White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi

  The White-tipped Dove is marked by sandy plumage, a darker back, and white tips on the outer tail feathers. It searches for seeds on the ground in dry woods and riverside scrub.

• Yellow-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes flavifrons

  The Yellow-fronted Woodpecker is a woodpecker with striking yellow and red on the head. It probes bark crevices and eats mainly plant foods, as well as insects.

• Dusky Leaftosser Sclerurus obscurior

  Sclerurus obscurior searches leaf litter on the forest floor. Peru Aves calls it the South American Leaftosser and notes that Tawny-throated Leaftosser was used formerly.

• Sunda Blue Robin Myiomela diana

  This robin lives in Java’s mountains. In a 2020 specimen study, males were glossy dark blue while females had mainly chestnut plumage.

• Magenta-throated Woodstar Calliphlox bryantae

  This small hummingbird occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adult males have a magenta throat, white collar, and long forked tail. The species uses forest edges, secondary growth, and scrub, and is described as solitary. Some checklists place it in Philodice rather than Calliphlox.

• Grey-headed Goshawk Tachyspiza poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Goshawk has a grey adult form and a much darker form. It hunts mainly lizards from a perch and occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Hooded Tanager Nemosia pileata

  This tanager is recorded in a university project area in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Only males have a black cap, and small flocks move through the canopy.

• Ferruginous Antbird Drymophila ferruginea

  This antbird lives in humid forest and bamboo thickets in southeastern Brazil. Its black head has a white eyebrow and cheeks; its black tail has broad white bars, and its underparts are rusty.

• Mountain Elaenia Elaenia frantzii

  A highland flycatcher found from Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and forages at forest edges and fruiting bushes.

• Black Wood Pigeon Columba janthina

  The Black Wood Pigeon is Japan's largest pigeon. It is blackish purple with a green sheen around the neck.

• Guayaquil Woodpecker Campephilus gayaquilensis

  This large woodpecker lives west of the Andes. It has a white V on its black back and searches for food under tree bark.

• Planalto Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes platyrostris

  Two subspecies with different plumage are described: dark-form D. p. platyrostris and pale-form D. p. intermedius. The first has a blackish crown and buff streaks; the second has a browner crown and brighter rufous wings and tail. A nesting study in northeastern Argentina found nests in natural tree cavities and nest boxes.

• Red-flanked bluetail Tarsiger cyanurus

  A bird of shaded forest undergrowth that also visits lowlands in autumn and winter.

• Cinnamon-throated Hermit Phaethornis nattereri

  The Cinnamon-throated Hermit lives in dry forest, savanna and woodland. It follows regular trap-lines between flowers and also eats insects. Its range includes separated areas in eastern Bolivia and Brazil, whose connection is uncertain.

• Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius

  The Northern Harrier is a North American hawk that glides low over grasslands and marshes while searching for small prey.

• Black-and-tawny Seedeater Sporophila nigrorufa

  The Black-and-tawny Seedeater is recorded in eastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Field observations found large flocks before breeding and pairs or smaller feeding groups during breeding.

• Black-crested Antshrike Sakesphorus canadensis

  This antshrike is associated with low vegetation at water edges. The Peru Aves account records foraging in permanently or seasonally flooded forest, lake edges, and along slow-flowing creeks.