Meet the world’s animals.

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• Turquoise Tanager Tangara mexicana

  

  This small bird lives in humid tropical forest in northeastern South America and Trinidad. It moves in small flocks in the canopy and eats fruit and insects.

• Pacific Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes johnsoni

  The Pacific Tuftedcheek occurs in the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. Its rufous back and flanks and white spots on a dark breast are distinctive.

• Many-colored Rush Tyrant Tachuris rubrigastra

  This colorful small bird lives in reedbeds at lakes and lagoons. It has a black head with a red crown and yellow eyebrow, makes short flights near the water, and nests in reeds.

• Gabela Akalat Sheppardia gabela

  The Gabela Akalat is a small forest bird from west-central Angola. A 2003 survey added records near Conda and Seles, including low secondary growth, forest edge, and regenerating coffee forest.

• Pink-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus porphyreus

  The male has a vivid pink-purple head and throat, and the dove feeds on fruit high in forest trees. It is native to mountain forests in Indonesia.

• Ferruginous-backed Antbird Myrmoderus ferrugineus

  This antbird lives in forests from the Guianas to northern Brazil. It walks on the forest floor and searches for food among leaf litter. Males and females differ in throat color.

• American Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus

  A raptor with narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. It catches prey in flight and also hunts small vertebrates during the breeding season.

• Crimson-backed Flameback Chrysocolaptes stricklandi

  This large woodpecker is endemic to Sri Lanka’s forests. It has deep crimson upperparts, and pairs have been reported in the forest understory.

• Garden Emerald Chlorostilbon assimilis

  The Garden Emerald occurs in southwestern Costa Rica and Panama. A breeding study documented one nest found in La Amistad International Park, Costa Rica.

• Lesser Antillean Tanager Stilpnia cucullata

  This small tanager occurs on Grenada and Saint Vincent. Male plumage differs between the islands, and taxonomic treatments vary between one species and two.

• Streak-backed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura striata

  This small bird ranges through the western Andes of Peru to northwestern Chile. A regional bird account describes pale streaks on the back and rufous streaks on the crown.

• Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges through the Tumbesian region of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A broad white eyebrow and yellow crown patch help identify it.

• Brown-chested Alethe Pseudalethe poliocephala

  This forest flycatcher searches for invertebrates near the forest floor. The current Oiseaux.net account uses Chamaetylas poliocephala; the pool had the older genus Pseudalethe.

• Common Ground Dove Columbina passerina

  The Common Ground Dove is a small dove of the southern United States. It forages for seeds on the ground, where its gray-brown plumage blends with soil and grass.

• Band-tailed Antbird Hypocnemoides maculicauda

  This small antbird ranges from eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and southern Amazonian Brazil. It lives near water in flooded or gallery forest and swamps; males are gray with a black bib and broad white tail tips.

• White-browed Hawk Leucopternis kuhli

  This hawk lives in lowlands south of the Amazon River. A study between Brazil's Madeira and Purus rivers recorded its nesting and plumage.

• Black-rumped Flameback Dinopium benghalense

  A woodpecker with a striking golden-looking back.

• Green Mango Anthracothorax viridis

  The Green Mango is emerald green in both sexes, with a rounded tail that has a blue sheen. It lives in Puerto Rico's mountain forests and shade-coffee plantations, feeding on nectar and small invertebrates.

• Patagonian Sierra Finch Phrygilus patagonicus

  This finch occurs along the forest–steppe ecotone of northwestern Patagonia. Males show blue-gray and chestnut, while females are gray and olive.

• Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper Drymornis bridgesii

  It is active by day in open woodland and the Chaco, where it searches the ground for invertebrates. Its body is about 29–35 cm long.

• Hudson's Black Tyrant Knipolegus hudsoni

  This austral migrant reaches southeastern Peru. The Peru Aves account says all Peruvian sight records are from Madre de Dios and that it forages in young vegetation at river-created habitats.

• Red-rumped Wheatear Oenanthe moesta

  The Red-rumped Wheatear is marked by rufous on its rump and tail. It lives in stony semi-desert and saline plains.

• Golden-spotted Ground Dove Metriopelia aymara

  The Golden-spotted Ground Dove is a small, compact, drab-brown dove with golden spots on its wings. It walks on the ground while searching for food in the high Andes.

• Spot-winged Antbird Myrmelastes leucostigma

  This antbird lives in Amazonian forest. Males are gray with white wing bars, females are brown with rufous wing spots, and the birds forage in wet places inside forest.