Meet the world’s animals.

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• Plumbeous Kite Ictinia plumbea

  

  The Plumbeous Kite is a daytime raptor with a lead-gray body, red eyes, and yellow legs. It often flies around forest edges and savannas and feeds mainly on insects.

• Purple-crowned Plovercrest Stephanoxis loddigesii

  This hummingbird lives in the Atlantic Forest of South America. Males raise a purple-blue crest during courtship, while females lack the crest and are green and grayish-white. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner Automolus infuscatus

  This foliage-gleaner occurs in the Amazon Basin and adjoining foothills. The individual pictured in the species account is of unknown sex and shows an olive-brown back and rufous tail.

• Helmeted Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus galeatus

  This small flycatcher has a black crest and yellowish olive upperparts. It forages in the understory of forests on nutrient-poor soils.

• Rufescent Imperial Pigeon Ducula chalconota

  The Rufescent Imperial Pigeon has glossy green upperparts and a chestnut-red belly. It feeds on fruit in the mountain forests of New Guinea.

• Javan Shortwing Brachypteryx montana

  Males have dark olive-brown upperparts and wings, a rusty-brown throat, chest, and flanks, and a gray belly. On Java's mountains, the species uses forest and eats insects and berries.

• Burnished-buff Tanager Stilpnia cayana

  This tanager is recorded in the Restinga de Cabedelo National Forest in Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. The male's black facial pattern contrasts with the paler female.

• Heart-spotted Woodpecker Hemicircus canente

  A woodpecker with a large head and short, rounded tail, it searches humid forest and bamboo for ants, termites, and other insects.

• 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.

• Outcrop Sabrewing Campylopterus calcirupicola

  The original paper described it as a distinct species in the Campylopterus largipennis complex and compared it with Diamantina Sabrewing: it is smaller and has longer pale tail tips. eBird later changed its English name from Dry-forest Sabrewing to Outcrop Sabrewing.

• Short-billed Miner Geositta antarctica

  A ground-dwelling bird that breeds in far southern Patagonia, including Tierra del Fuego. Field observations describe feeding in wet grassland and nesting in burrows within open steppe.

• Giant Kingbird Tyrannus cubensis

  This large tyrant flycatcher has a massive black bill and orange crown feathers that may be raised in display. Its range is restricted to forested parts of Cuba.

• Christmas Imperial Pigeon Ducula whartoni

  The Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon is a large pigeon found only on Christmas Island. Flocks feed on ripe fruit in the rainforest canopy.

• Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias olivaceus

  This flycatcher inhabits lowland forest in Southeast Asia. Rhinomyias olivaceus, the candidate-pool name, is an older generic combination; current accounts use Cyornis olivaceus. It catches insects from mid-level perches.

• Glistening-green Tanager Chlorochrysa phoenicotis

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

• White-naped Woodpecker Chrysocolaptes festivus

  The White-naped Woodpecker is marked by a white nape and dark back. It searches bark for invertebrates in open woodland.

• Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris

  A small raptor with a white and grey body and a black shoulder patch. It hovers over open ground while searching for rodents.

• Diamantina Sabrewing Campylopterus diamantinensis

  Campylopterus diamantinensis is a hummingbird from the highlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. A 2017 study described the tail pattern of the population now treated as this species, when it was still considered a subspecies.

• Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner Neophilydor fuscipenne

  The Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner inhabits moist lowland and montane forests. It has rufous-brown upperparts and dark slate-colored wings.

• Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus

  The Great Crested Flycatcher hunts insects high in trees and is marked by reddish-brown accents and a yellow belly.

• Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus occipitalis

  The Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove lives in forests of the Philippines. It has green upperparts, a gray head, yellow breast, and maroon marks on the belly and behind the eye.

• Archer's Ground Robin Cossypha archeri

  A robin-chat of the Albertine Rift montane forests. It often feeds for insects on the ground.

• Slate-colored Seedeater Sporophila schistacea

  Males range from dark gray to gray-olive. The species occurs around humid forest edges and understory, and may move in search of seeding bamboo, though it is not an obligate bamboo specialist.

• Fine-barred Piculet Picumnus subtilis

  This small woodpecker is recorded in southeastern Peru and western Amazonia. A 2009 paper reported records in Acre, Brazil, and described foraging at the edge of terra firme forest with bamboo.