Meet the world’s animals.

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• Ringed Antpipit Corythopis torquatus

  

  This South American forest flycatcher has a grey-brown crown, tawny shoulders, a white throat and belly, and a broad black breast band. It feeds on insects and other small prey.

• 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.

• Rubeho Akalat Sheppardia aurantiithorax

  The Rubeho Akalat occurs in forest in the Eastern Arc mountains of central Tanzania. Its throat and upper breast are deep orange, and observations describe it feeding on the ground and low branches.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.

• Arrowhead Piculet Picumnus minutissimus

  The Arrowhead Piculet is a small woodpecker of the coastal lowlands of the Guianas. Its underparts have an arrowhead-like scaly pattern; males have broad red feather tips on the crown.

• Speckled Antshrike Xenornis setifrons

  This antshrike ranges from eastern Panama into northwestern Colombia. Males and females differ in face and underpart color, and a Panamanian record describes a nest on a streamside slope.

• Javan Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus bartelsi

  This large raptor lives in forests on Java. Adults have a prominent crest and may soar above the canopy.

• White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii

  The White-vented Plumeleteer is a hummingbird ranging from Central America into northwestern South America. A study in Colombia found a nest in dense understory beside a stream.

• Light-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca albiceps

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in humid montane forest in southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Its pale crown and dark eyebrow are distinctive.

• Bearded Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a disjunct distribution across South American grasslands. It is recorded in low grassland with scattered scrub near water.

• Elegant Imperial Pigeon Ducula concinna

  This large pigeon is about 43 cm long. It lives in forests and woodland on the small islands of Wallacea and feeds on fruit.

• Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

  Males are indigo with brighter blue on the forehead and shoulders; females are olive brown. The species inhabits forests from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and beyond.

• White-naped Seedeater Sporophila fringilloides

  Males are black and white with a white nape band; females are brown. The species ranges from southern Venezuela and southeastern Colombia through northwestern Brazil to the Manaus region, and into southern Guyana.

• Rusty-necked Piculet Picumnus fuscus

  This small woodpecker inhabits riverine lowland forest in northeastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil. Males have reddish-orange tips on the crown feathers.

• Peruvian Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis peruviana

  It lives in western Amazonian rainforest east of the Andes. It gleans insects from the undersides of leaves and also uses forest edges and second growth near water or marshes. It has a black iris and a short tail.

• Martial Eagle Polemaetus bellicosus

  The Martial Eagle is a large eagle with dark spots on its white belly. It uses open habitats such as wooded savanna and grassland.

• Blue-throated Hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus

  A hummingbird of shrub patches in the southwestern Ecuadorian Andes. Males have a blue throat, while females show grey and white areas on the throat.

• Ruddy Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rubiginosus

  This ovenbird occurs in Amazonia and along the Andean foothills. Rufous-brown plumage, a rufous tail, and a gray ear patch help distinguish it.

• Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans

  This flycatcher is common in the western United States. It waits on low perches near water, then flies out to catch insects. Its black body and white belly stand out.

• Flock Bronzewing Phaps histrionica

  Flock Bronzewings are nomadic ground-feeding pigeons. Inland Queensland observations describe movements following rain and seasonal food availability.

• Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica

  In breeding plumage, an adult male has a black facial mask, a white throat, and pale ochre upperparts. It searches for insects in dry open country and visits Europe in summer.

• Little Inca Finch Incaspiza watkinsi

  This small bird lives in the lower Marañón region of northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, a brownish back, and a pale belly, and searches near the ground along woodland edges and in scrub.

• White-spotted Woodpecker Veniliornis spilogaster

  This 16–20 cm woodpecker uses open forest and woodland and searches bark for invertebrates. Sound recordings include Ubatuba in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Spot-winged Antshrike Pygiptila stellaris

  The Spot-winged Antshrike forages in Amazonian forest. Males and females have different plumage, and the bird may move through the midstory and canopy with mixed-species flocks.