Meet the world’s animals.

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• Rüppell's Robin-Chat Cossypha semirufa

  

  This robin-chat has a black head, white eyebrow, orange throat, and orange sides to its tail. It moves in the lower growth of East African forests and woodlands.

• Black-breasted Plovercrest Stephanoxis lalandi

  This small crested hummingbird occurs in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. A 2014 taxonomic study restored the boundary between two forms that earlier authors had treated as one species.

• Short-billed Canastero Asthenes baeri

  The Short-billed Canastero is a small furnariid of Argentina's open scrub and sparse woodland. Its grey-brown back and chestnut throat patch stand out, and it searches for food on the ground.

• Squatter Pigeon Geophaps scripta

  This Australian pigeon has bold black-and-white facial and throat markings. It picks up seeds among sparse grass and may run rather than fly when disturbed.

• Ornate Flycatcher Myiotriccus ornatus

  An Andean foothill and subtropical-forest flycatcher from Colombia through Peru. Tail color differs between Andean slopes.

• 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.

• Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros

  A small bird that also lives in British cities and industrial centres. Males have grey-black plumage and a red tail.

• Rufous-vented Whitetip Urosticte ruficrissa

  A small hummingbird of the northern Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. In males, the white tips of the central tail feathers stand out against the green plumage.

• Speckled Spinetail Thripophaga gutturata

  The Speckled Spinetail lives in riverside and lowland forests on the Amazonian side of the Andes. It is spotted below and is reported to eat mainly spiders and cockroaches.

• Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida

  The Peaceful Dove is a small grey-brown dove with barred plumage. In South Australia it feeds on the ground for seeds and usually occurs in pairs or small flocks.

• Masked Water Tyrant Fluvicola nengeta

  This small bird has a white head and a black stripe through the eye. It searches muddy river and pond edges for small arthropods.

• Red-backed Sierra Finch Idiopsar dorsalis

  This finch inhabits high elevations from northern Chile through southwestern Bolivia to northwestern Argentina. It feeds on seeds on the ground in rocky areas and high-Andean grassland.

• Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea

  The Ferruginous Flycatcher has a gray head, orange-brown body, and pale ring around the eye. It perches at mid-height in montane forest openings, often near running water, and sallies out to catch insects.

• Glittering-throated Emerald Chionomesa fimbriata

  This hummingbird is widespread across northern South America. It has a glittering green throat and a white stripe down the center of its belly. It feeds on nectar and occurs in forest, scrub, savanna, gardens, and other settings.

• Spot-throated Woodcreeper Certhiasomus stictolaemus

  This woodcreeper forages low in humid Amazonian forest. Its head and body are olive brown, its wings and tail chestnut-rufous, and pale spots mark the throat and breast.

• Orange-bellied Fruit Dove Ptilinopus iozonus

  This forest dove lives on New Guinea and nearby islands. Adults of subspecies humeralis are mostly green, with a bright orange patch on the centre of the belly.

• Fuscous Flycatcher Cnemotriccus fuscatus

  This flycatcher occurs across South America. The Peru account describes it foraging in the understory of river-created habitats, with different subspecies associated with different environments.

• Rufous-browed Conebill Conirostrum rufum

  Its rufous brow and underparts contrast with a gray back and a narrow wing bar. It searches for insects along high-Andean forest edges and occurs in Colombian mountain regions.

• Cassin's Flycatcher Muscicapa cassini

  This flycatcher ranges from West Africa east to Uganda and northern Zambia. It catches flying insects around swamps and streams in humid lowland forest.

• White-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes cyanus

  This hummingbird uses humid forest and adjacent scrubby transitions. An Argentine biodiversity account describes distinct blue markings in males and females.

• 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.

• Wonga Pigeon Leucosarcia melanoleuca

  This gray pigeon has a white V-shaped marking from the nape onto the back. It often forages on the ground for food beneath leaf litter.

• Rufous-crowned Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus ruficeps

  This tiny flycatcher, about 9.5 cm long, has a rufous crown, pale cheeks edged in black and a yellow underside. It searches for insects in the understorey of humid montane forest and tall second growth.

• 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.