Meet the world’s animals.
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- Gurney's Eagle Aquila gurneyi
Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy · CC BY-SA 2.0 Gurney's Eagle is a large forest eagle of New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults are dark brown and search for food on slow, low flights, usually alone or in pairs.
- Rusty-fronted Canastero Asthenes ottonis
The Rusty-fronted Canastero is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub of the high Andes.
- Golden-crowned Tanager Iridosornis rufivertex
This tanager lives in high-elevation scrub and elfin forest in the northern Andes. It is bright blue, with a black head and a golden crown.
- Little Forktail Enicurus scouleri
The Little Forktail is a small streamside bird with striking black-and-white plumage. It flicks its short, shallowly forked tail while searching for aquatic insects on rocks.
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum
This small tyrannulet is recorded in wooded habitats in Argentina and Bolivia. An Argentine account gives a length of about 11 cm.
- Southern White-fringed Antwren Formicivora grisea
This antbird forages in scrub and hedgerows left among pastureland. In Peru, the Aves de Perú account reports records from Pampa del Heath and Pampa Juliaca in Puno.
- Little Green Woodpecker Campethera maculosa
The pool's Little Green Woodpecker is treated in current eBird taxonomy as the Little Green group within Green-backed Woodpecker. Western birds have green backs, red on the head, and barred underparts.
- Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingii
This hummingbird lives in Andean mountain forest. Males flash a very long blue-green tail and look markedly different from females.
- Purple Quail-Dove Geotrygon purpurata
This dove occurs only in western Colombia through northwestern Ecuador, in the wet rainforests of the Chocó. Adults show purple, blue, and iridescent colors, with a dark blue stripe across a white face. Females and juveniles are duller than males.
- Crane Hawk Geranospiza caerulescens
In the Argentine account, the Crane Hawk is a raptor that walks through wetlands, grasslands, and woodland while searching for food. It has a bluish-gray back and gray-and-white barring.
- Scalloped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes falcinellus
This woodcreeper searches along tree trunks in humid forest. It has a rufous back, pale eyebrow, and finely scalloped belly. It is associated with the Atlantic Forest, where one observed pair took turns incubating its eggs.
- Common Diuca Finch Diuca diuca
A gray-backed finch with a white throat and belly, it searches the ground for seeds. It may form winter flocks and live in territorial pairs in summer.
- White-browed Robin-Chat Cossypha heuglini
A robin-chat of thickets and forest edges in eastern and southern Africa. Its white eyebrow and orange underparts stand out against the dark head.
- Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis
This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.
- Bolivian Slaty Antshrike Thamnophilus sticturus
The Bolivian Slaty Antshrike occurs from eastern Bolivia into southwestern Brazil, in tropical dry forest. It has white wing spots and spots on the outer webs of many tail feathers that show from above when the tail is open.
- Little Woodpecker Veniliornis passerinus
This small woodpecker is widespread across northern and eastern South America. It favors forest edges and regenerating woodland over dense forest interior and searches bark for insects.
- Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae
The Bee Hummingbird is described as the world's smallest bird. Males have iridescent throat feathers, and the birds visit flowers for nectar in Cuba.
- Pheasant Pigeon Otidiphaps nobilis
The Pheasant Pigeon is a pigeon that spends much of its time on the ground and has pheasant-like habits. It eats seeds and fallen fruit.
- Crested Goshawk Lophospiza trivirgata
The Crested Goshawk is a raptor of forests and wooded edges from South to Southeast Asia. It hunts from concealed perches in trees.
- White-eyed Foliage-gleaner Automolus leucophthalmus
A pale area before the eye and a rufous tail help identify it. It searches in forest thickets and among ground litter, and has records at sites in southeastern Brazil.
- Green-headed Tanager Tangara seledon
This tanager is restricted to the Atlantic Forest. It uses forest and regrowth, as well as farms with scattered trees and gardens, and feeds on wild or cultivated fruit and insects.
- Brown-backed Scrub Robin Erythropygia hartlaubi
This small robin has a brown back. It uses tall grass savanna and scrub near woodland, where it searches for invertebrates on the ground.
- Golden-crowned Flycatcher Myiodynastes chrysocephalus
This flycatcher inhabits humid Andean montane forest. Its yellow crown patch can be concealed, while a broad white eyebrow and streaked yellow underparts are conspicuous.
- Hairy-crested Antbird Rhegmatorhina melanosticta
This antbird lives in the understory of Amazonian terra firme forest. The bare eye-ring and crest color vary among regions.