Meet the world’s animals.

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• Firethroat Luscinia pectardens

  

  This small bird breeds in the mountains of southern China and winters in northeastern India. Males show a bright orange throat and breast; females are brown.

• Kalinowski’s Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix spodionota

  A chat-tyrant recorded in the central Peruvian Andes and Bolivia. It has cinnamon-colored wing bars.

• White-shouldered Antshrike Thamnophilus aethiops

  This antshrike forages in the upper understorey and mid-storey of Amazonian forest; plumage varies among subspecies and sexes.

• Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber

  This woodpecker has a scarlet head and a black-and-white checkerboard back. It drills rows of shallow sap wells in trees and occurs in forests of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Coast.

• Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster

  Males have black underparts and a glossy green throat. Females have grayish underparts. Peruvian highland records describe birds catching insects at streams.

• Bronze Ground Dove Pampusana beccarii

  This rounded, short-legged dove lives in montane forest on mainland New Guinea.

• White-backed vulture Gyps africanus

  A vulture that gathers with others and searches for carcasses in African savannas.

• Berlepsch’s Canastero Asthenes berlepschi

  This small bird is restricted to the Sorata area of Bolivia. It occurs in Polylepis woodland, where it searches foliage for arthropods; territorial pairs care for young.

• Glistening-green Tanager Chlorochrysa phoenicotis

  A tanager of humid montane forests in Colombia and Ecuador. Males are vivid green; females are duller.

• Zappey's Flycatcher Cyanoptila cumatilis

  Zappey’s Flycatcher breeds in central and east-central China and winters in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java. Males are blue and females brown; it forages from the middle forest layer to the canopy.

• Andean Negrito Lessonia oreas

  This bird occurs in the high Andes of Peru. Its account describes feeding in short, wet grass beside water; males are black with a rufous back, while females are grey-brown.

• Aripuana Antwren Herpsilochmus stotzi

  This antwren was described from the Aripuanã–Machado interfluvium in central Amazonian Brazil, where it occurs in campinarana forest on poor soils.

• White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos

  The White-backed Woodpecker searches for food in forests with dead trees. It has black-and-white bars across its back and is often solitary outside the breeding season.

• Honduran Emerald Amazilia luciae

  This hummingbird is endemic to Honduras, where it lives in dry interior valleys with scrub and thorn forest. It feeds on flower nectar as well as insects and spiders.

• 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.

• Tiny Hawk Microspizias superciliosus

  This small hawk inhabits humid lowland forest from Central America into South America. Fine barring and a long banded tail mark its shape; it hunts small birds, including hummingbirds.

• Junin Canastero Asthenes virgata

  This canastero occurs locally in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Its orange-rufous throat and pale eyebrow are distinctive.

• Crimson-breasted Finch Rhodospingus cruentus

  A small finch of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Short seasonal movements have been reported in western Ecuador.

• Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica

  The Dark-sided Flycatcher breeds in northern Asia and winters in southern China and Southeast Asia.

• Ticking Doradito Pseudocolopteryx citreola

  The Ticking Doradito breeds in central Chile and western Argentina, then moves north to Bolivia in winter.

• Streak-headed Antbird Drymophila striaticeps

  The Streak-headed Antbird occurs in forests on the eastern Andean slopes and forages in dense bamboo undergrowth.

• Rufous-breasted Piculet Picumnus rufiventris

  This small piculet occurs in western Amazonia. A 2013 field account recorded foraging among bamboo and vines and an apparent recently fledged juvenile.

• Black-eared Fairy Heliothryx auritus

  The Black-eared Fairy is a hummingbird with a long, mostly white tail, white underparts, and a dark line behind the eye. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid forest and feeds on nectar.

• Key West Quail-Dove Geotrygon chrysia

  This dove occurs on Caribbean islands. It walks on the ground to forage and stays quiet beneath dense cover.