Meet the world’s animals.

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• Uniform Treehunter Thripadectes ignobilis

  

  The Uniform Treehunter is a brown ovenbird of forest on the western Andean slope. It searches among branches and vines for arthropods, earthworms and larvae.

• Riverside Tyrant Knipolegus orenocensis

  This flycatcher forages in young vegetation created by rivers. Males are black; females have gray upperparts and pale, streaked underparts.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Raimondi’s Yellow-Finch Sicalis raimondii

  Raimondi’s Yellow-Finch is endemic to the Peruvian coast, where it occurs in lomas vegetation. It is usually uncommon but may gather in large numbers where food is available.

• Pacific Emerald Dove Chalcophaps longirostris

  This dove ranges from the eastern Lesser Sundas through Australia and New Guinea to Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It uses forest and mangroves and feeds mainly on fallen fruit and seeds on the ground.

• Javan Hawk-Eagle Nisaetus bartelsi

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

• Shining Sunbeam Aglaeactis cupripennis

  A high-Andean hummingbird with cinnamon-rufous plumage that varies by subspecies. Both sexes have an iridescent rump. Flower nectar was the main food recorded at study sites in Peru and Ecuador.

• 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.

• Mottle-backed Elaenia Elaenia gigas

  This large elaenia ranges from southeastern Colombia through eastern Ecuador and Peru to western Bolivia. Its raised crest and white crown patch stand out, and it uses moist shrubland, landslides, riparian growth, and forest clearings.

• Northern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis edolioides

  The Northern Black Flycatcher occurs across northern and eastern sub-Saharan Africa, using moist woodland, acacia savanna and plantations. The male is bluish slate-gray with a long tail and short wings.

• Drab Hemispingus Pseudospingus xanthophthalmus

  This tanager lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes. It is gray above, paler gray below, and has a pale iris.

• Ochre-bellied Dove Leptotila ochraceiventris

  The Ochre-bellied Dove is a South American pigeon that walks quietly near the forest floor. Its ochre-colored belly and use of the forest understory stand out.

• Jackal Buzzard Buteo rufofuscus

  The Jackal Buzzard is a large raptor of southern African hills and mountains. Its plumage varies, and it searches for prey from the air or a perch.

• Rainbow Starfrontlet Coeligena iris

  It is about 15 cm long. Six subspecies are listed from southern Ecuador to northern Peru.

• White-whiskered Spinetail Synallaxis candei

  The White-whiskered Spinetail has a black face marked by a white moustache stripe. A Colombia field page documents the nominate form in dry scrub at Los Flamencos, La Guajira, and notes that nearby forms differ in face and throat color.

• White-headed Marsh Tyrant Arundinicola leucocephala

  The White-headed Marsh Tyrant perches on aquatic plants and reeds, and the sexes have different plumage. Records are also confirmed in Argentina.

• Red-throated Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla

  The Taiga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher marked by a blackish tail and white undertail-coverts. It migrates from breeding areas in northeast Asia to wintering areas farther south.

• Spangle-cheeked Tanager Tangara dowii

  The Spangle-cheeked Tanager lives in wet mountain forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adults have black-and-blue scaling on the cheeks and a rufous crown patch; immatures are duller and lack that crown patch. It eats fruit as well as insects and spiders.

• Pale-vented Pigeon Patagioenas cayennensis

  The Pale-vented Pigeon has a ruddy brown body, gray head, and pale lower belly. It perches high in trees in woodland and more open habitats and gives a low-pitched call.

• Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus

  A slender bird of prey whose plumage differs by sex and age: adult males are gray, while females and juveniles are mostly brown.

• Tourmaline Sunangel Heliangelus exortis

  The Tourmaline Sunangel is a small hummingbird of the Andes. Males have glossy green plumage and a violet-blue throat, and the birds feed on nectar and insects.

• Strong-billed Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus

  A large woodcreeper of Andean forests, it searches along trunks and branches with a notably stout bill.

• Panama Tyrannulet Phylloscartes flavovirens

  This small tyrannulet is locally distributed in Panama. It searches for arthropods in the forest canopy and is recorded as a year-round resident.

• Rusty-bellied Shortwing Brachypteryx hyperythra

  This shortwing has strongly different plumage in males and females. It lives in damp forest and dense undergrowth in the eastern Himalayas.