Meet the world’s animals.

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• Empress Brilliant Heliodoxa imperatrix

  

  This large hummingbird occurs in humid mountain forests from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It feeds on nectar at flowers.

• 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.

• Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon Ducula poliocephala

  A large pigeon endemic to the Philippines, living in the canopy of primary and older secondary forest on the islands.

• Rufous-breasted Bush Robin Tarsiger hyperythrus

  The male Rufous-breasted Bush Robin has a blue back and chestnut underparts. It breeds in the Himalayas, uses mixed conifer forest, and searches the ground for insects.

• Black-collared Hawk Busarellus nigricollis

  The Black-collared Hawk is a fish-eating raptor of Central and South American wetlands. Adults have a reddish-brown body with a black crescent on the upper breast.

• Pale-browed Treehunter Cichlocolaptes leucophrus

  A foliage-gleaner recorded in humid forests of southeastern Brazil. It searches mossy limbs and branches bearing epiphytes for food.

• Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum

  This tanager ranges widely through Central and South America. In Bolivia it occurs in forest and palm groves as well as cultivated land and urban parks.

• Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus

  This large hummingbird shows purple and green plumage. Males and females differ below, and it feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Three-striped Flycatcher Conopias trivirgatus

  Adults show a dark crown, white eyebrow, black eye-mask, and yellow throat and belly. The Peru Aves account describes them feeding in the canopy of seasonally flooded forest and along forest edges.

• Sunda Collared Dove Streptopelia bitorquata

  The Sunda Collared-Dove is an island dove with pale sandy-brown plumage and a black-and-white half-collar. It feeds on seeds scattered on the ground in open country and farmland.

• Abyssinian Wheatear Oenanthe lugubris

  This wheatear lives in rocky mountains and uplands of East Africa. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have two reported forms of belly color.

• Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni

  Swainson’s Hawk breeds in western North America and migrates to South America for winter; it eats many insects outside the breeding season.

• 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.

• Inti Tanager Heliothraupis oneilli

  Heliothraupis oneilli was described from the lower Yungas of Peru and Bolivia. The study reports different recorded settings in the breeding season and dry season.

• Humboldt's Sapphire Chrysuronia humboldtii

  This hummingbird is recorded along Colombia's Pacific coast. In a 19th-century account the male has a blue head and throat, while the female has a coppery back. It feeds on nectar and visits flowering mangroves.

• Santa Marta Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes pernix

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Colombia. Its original description recorded plumage from a single adult male.

• Scaled Dove Columbina squammata

  Its feathers have overlapping edges that create a scaled pattern. It searches for food on the ground in dry grassland and scrub.

• Hume's Wheatear Oenanthe albonigra

  Hume's Wheatear is a wheatear with a black head and back and a white breast and belly. The sexes look alike.

• Grey-headed Goshawk Tachyspiza poliocephala

  The Grey-headed Goshawk has a grey adult form and a much darker form. It hunts mainly lizards from a perch and occurs on New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Striped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus obsoletus

  This woodcreeper lives in lowland forests of the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield. It searches for insects while climbing trunks and branches in forests near water and in flooded forests.

• Slate-colored Grosbeak Saltator grossus

  The Slate-colored Grosbeak forages in the canopy and subcanopy of mature forests. Peru Aves shows an adult of unknown sex photographed in Pichincha, Ecuador.

• Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird Chrysuronia lilliae

  This hummingbird occurs on Colombia’s northern coast. A 1992 BirdLife account often associates it with coastal mangroves, while also noting a record from dry scrub.

• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges from Mexico to Bolivia. It occurs from dry scrub to rainforest and is more often reported in the canopy or at forest edges than deep inside extensive forest.

• Flock Bronzewing Phaps histrionica

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