Meet the world’s animals.

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• Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis

  

  A flycatcher with bright yellow underparts, a pale eye-stripe, and a black face, commonly seen in open countryside in Latin America.

• Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae

  The male is a small hummingbird with a blue-violet throat and bronzy-golden tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and also takes small arthropods.

• Stout-billed Cinclodes Cinclodes excelsior

  The Stout-billed Cinclodes is a ground-dwelling bird of the high Andes. Its thick, down-curved bill and scaled pattern across the throat and upper chest are distinctive.

• Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica

  In breeding plumage, an adult male has a black facial mask, a white throat, and pale ochre upperparts. It searches for insects in dry open country and visits Europe in summer.

• 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.

• Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch Sicalis citrina

  Males are conspicuously yellow, while females have stronger dark streaks on the head and underside. At Brasília National Park, a breeding study found the finches using old mining sites and nesting close to the ground.

• Greenish Tyrannulet Phyllomyias virescens

  This small tyrannulet lives in humid evergreen forest in southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of South America. It is bright olive above, with dusky wings.

• 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.

• Montane Foliage-gleaner Anabacerthia striaticollis

  The Montane Foliage-gleaner forages in the middle and upper levels of humid montane forest, often with mixed-species flocks.

• Fire-crested Alethe Alethe castanea

  A red-orange crest runs over the head. In western Uganda’s Budongo Forest, observers reported birds following people and searching disturbed leaf litter.

• Mourning Collared Dove Streptopelia decipiens

  The Mourning Collared Dove is an African dove that lives in forests and gardens. It is distinct from North America’s Mourning Dove despite the similar English name.

• Marsh Seedeater Sporophila palustris

  This small bird eats seeds and lives in wetlands and damp grasslands with many seed-bearing plants. Outside breeding activity it may join mixed flocks with other Sporophila.

• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis

  This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.

• Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae

  The male's dark crest plumes and golden-green throat stand out on this small hummingbird. It visits flowers and gleans tiny arthropods along humid forest edges and coffee farms.

• 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.

• Firethroat Luscinia pectardens

  This small bird breeds in the mountains of southern China and winters in northeastern India. Males show a bright orange throat and breast; females are brown.

• Grey-headed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus hyogastrus

  The Grey-headed Fruit Dove combines green plumage with gray, claret, and yellow areas. It occurs in small groups in forest canopy and edges in the northern Moluccas.

• Tawny-bellied Seedeater Sporophila hypoxantha

  A small seedeater of southern South American grasslands. It takes grass seeds and places its nest in low shrubs during the breeding season.

• Warbling Doradito Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris

  This small tyrant flycatcher moves in short flights through reeds and searches low vegetation for food. The Argentine national account records it from the north of the country south to Chubut.

• Black-breasted Puffleg Eriocnemis nigrivestis

  A hummingbird of high-elevation forest in northwestern Ecuador. It is marked by white leg puffs and feeds on flower nectar.

• Pale-tailed Canastero Asthenes huancavelicae

  Pale-tailed Canastero occurs in central-southern Peru. The Apurimac form usheri has pale outer tail feathers, and the species account places it in arid valleys with scattered shrubs, cacti, and trees.

• Böhm's Flycatcher Muscicapa boehmi

  A flycatcher of miombo and other woodlands in south-central Africa. The sexes are similar, and the pale throat and breast carry dark triangular marks.

• White-faced Cuckoo-Dove Turacoena manadensis

  A pigeon with a white face and dark body. It eats fruit in trees and uses several kinds of woodland on Sulawesi.

• Blue-capped Tanager Sporathraupis cyanocephala

  This tanager inhabits Andean forest and humid scrub. Its blue head and gray throat and belly help distinguish it from similar species.