Meet the world’s animals.

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• Speckled Tanager Ixothraupis guttata

  

  The Speckled Tanager lives mainly in the canopy of humid montane forest from Central America to northern South America.

• Buff-fronted Quail-Dove Zentrygon costaricensis

  The Buff-fronted Quail-Dove has a rufous-brown back, green nape, and a black stripe on its mostly white face. It is found on the ground in montane cloud forest in Costa Rica and western Panama.

• Yellow-winged Flatbill Tolmomyias flavotectus

  Its type description records yellow-edged wing feathers and a grey crown mixed with green. It ranges from southern Nicaragua to western Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes, in lowland evergreen and secondary forest.

• White-throated Jungle Flycatcher Rhinomyias albigularis

  It has an olive-brown head, pale eyebrow, white throat, broad brown breast band, and white belly. It occurs in the shaded understory of lowland and montane forest.

• Black-throated Thistletail Asthenes harterti

  This thistletail occurs along upper Yungas forest edges and in bamboo scrub near the treeline in Bolivia.

• Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii

  This roughly 12 cm hummingbird lives on the western slope of the northern Andes. Green upperparts, gray underparts, and dark throat and upper-breast speckles help identify it.

• Ovambo Sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis

  The Ovambo Sparrowhawk is a hawk of sub-Saharan Africa. It hunts other birds around dry woodland edges and savannas.

• 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.

• Collared Imperial Pigeon Ducula mullerii

  A large pigeon of forests around New Guinea, it is marked by a black collar and maroon back and may move as fruit availability changes.

• Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet Mecocerculus minor

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. It has an olive mantle, gray crown, and white eyebrow, and forages in the canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Palawan Blue Flycatcher Cyornis lemprieri

  This flycatcher occurs on Palawan and nearby Philippine islands. It is found alone or in pairs in the understory of moist lowland, foothill, and secondary forest.

• Plain Softtail Thripophaga fusciceps

  This ovenbird occurs in river-edge and floodplain forests in Bolivia. Accounts describe a long tail and a reddish iris.

• Lazuline Sabrewing Campylopterus falcatus

  Campylopterus falcatus is a hummingbird recorded in Colombia's mountains. Males are green with blue-violet throat and lower chest; females are green above and on the sides with grey-white underparts. Foraging at flowering Inga was reported.

• Rufous-winged Buzzard Butastur liventer

  The Rufous-winged Buzzard is a raptor that searches for prey in wooded grassland and farmland. By day, it watches open ground from a perch.

• Black-cowled Saltator Saltator nigriceps

  This saltator ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It occurs in humid montane forest, forest edges, and scrub.

• Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti

  The Ruddy Ground Dove is a small dove widespread in Central and South America. Males are reddish brown, females are browner, and the birds forage for seeds on the ground.

• Bright-rumped Attila Attila spadiceus

  The Bright-rumped Attila is a tyrant flycatcher marked by a yellow rump. Its plumage varies among subspecies and color morphs, and it searches for insects and small animals in the middle forest layers.

• Short-toed Rock Thrush Monticola brevipes

  The Short-toed Rock-thrush lives in dry rocky habitats of southern Africa. Males are blue-grey and rufous, while females are mainly grey-brown.

• Bahia Spinetail Synallaxis cinerea

  The Bahia Spinetail is a small bird of a restricted area of eastern Brazil. It searches for insects in the forest understory, sometimes moving with mixed flocks in pairs or family groups.

• Purple-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron microrhynchum

  This small hummingbird uses the canopy and subcanopy of Andean forests. Male and female plumage and tail shape differ.

• Lesser Fish Eagle Icthyophaga humilis

  A small eagle seen around rivers and lakes. Adults are marked by a white belly and yellow eyes, and the species often uses fast-flowing foothill streams.

• Orange-throated Tanager Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron

  This tanager is localized in southeastern Ecuador and the Cenepa River basin of northeastern Peru. The Peru account records it in humid montane forest.

• Sulawesi Ground Dove Gallicolumba tristigmata

  The Sulawesi Ground Dove is a forest pigeon of Sulawesi, marked by a yellow forehead and green hindneck. It searches for food on the forest floor.

• Sooty-crowned Flycatcher Myiarchus phaeocephalus

  A flycatcher recorded in northwestern Peru and the Marañón basin. PeruAves also lists Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia.