Meet the world’s animals.

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• Moreno's Ground Dove Metriopelia morenoi

  

  This small dove is brown overall, with conspicuous yellow-orange bare skin around the eyes. It inhabits rocky shrub steppe in northwestern Argentina and nests on the ground.

• Blue rock thrush Monticola solitarius

  A bird of coastal rocks and cliffs that is also seen in Japanese towns.

• Pink-legged Graveteiro Acrobatornis fonsecai

  This bird occurs in humid Atlantic Forest in southeastern Bahia, Brazil. Researchers recorded it in the canopy of tall trees retained over cocoa plantations.

• Dull-colored Grassquit Asemospiza obscura

  This small tanager occurs around the Andes. It has plain gray-brown plumage and a dark bill with a yellow-orange lower mandible.

• Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti

  The adult male has a shining purple crown and green upperparts; the female lacks those colors.

• Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor

  The Cock-tailed Tyrant lives in South American grasslands. The male has a white face and underside, a black patch at the side of the breast, and a long tail; the female is brown with a short tail.

• Olive-backed Quail-Dove Leptotrygon veraguensis

  The Olive-backed Quail-Dove lives in wet forests from Central America to Colombia and Ecuador, foraging on or near the forest floor.

• Olivaceous Flycatcher Muscicapa olivascens

  This small flycatcher lives in humid forests of West and Central Africa. It launches from a perch to catch insects in the air.

• Curve-billed Reedhaunter Limnornis curvirostris

  This bird occurs in wetlands of Argentina and Uruguay. An 1888 natural-history account describes it in dense reeds rising from water, where it remains concealed.

• Golden-eared Tanager Tangara chrysotis

  The Golden-eared Tanager is a small tanager about 11.5 cm long. In Bolivia it is recorded in humid cloud forest of the lower Yungas and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Blue-tailed Hummingbird Saucerottia cyanura

  This hummingbird occurs in lowlands and foothills from southern Mexico through Central America. A blue tail, purplish rump, and rusty wing patch are key marks; it visits flowering trees and shrubs.

• Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris

  This small montane flycatcher forages in vegetation overhanging streams on the eastern Andes. Chestnut on the breast and belly varies across the Marañón Valley.

• Beautiful Fruit Dove Ptilinopus pulchellus

  The Beautiful Fruit Dove is a small pigeon of rainforests on New Guinea and nearby islands. It plucks fruit from the ends of branches.

• Daurian redstart Phoenicurus auroreus

  A small bird with a white patch on the wing, seen mainly in winter in Japan around farmland, riverbanks and open woodland edges.

• Northern Plain Xenops Xenops mexicanus

  The Northern Plain Xenops searches tree trunks for insects in the lower and middle levels of humid tropical forest and at forest edges. Birds Colombia describes the sexes as similar and notes that juveniles have a dark brown throat.

• Greater Antillean Bullfinch Melopyrrha violacea

  This resident tanager occurs in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. BirdLife lists records from 0–2,000 m.

• Spangled Coquette Lophornis stictolophus

  This tiny hummingbird is about 7 cm long. The male's crest and glittering throat feathers stand out, and the sexes have different patterns.

• Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus striaticollis

  The Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant lives in humid secondary woodland and river-edge thickets in South America. It has a dark-striped white throat and yellow underparts.

• Oriental turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis

  A dove of East Asian woods, farmland and towns. In Japan, fine striped patches on the sides of the neck help identify it.

• White-capped Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus

  This streamside flycatcher breeds in Central Asia, the Himalayas and much of China. Its white crown and nape, black chest and reddish-brown belly and tail are distinctive. In winter it moves to lower elevations.

• Caatinga Cacholote Pseudoseisura cristata

  The Caatinga Cacholote lives in the dry northeast of Brazil. It is bright reddish brown, with a prominent crest and yellow iris. Pairs forage on the ground for insects and plant matter in Caatinga woodland and scrub.

• Puna Yellow Finch Sicalis lutea

  This finch is found in puna grassland and stony scrub of the high Andes. Both sexes are greenish yellow, while females average slightly duller.

• Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus

  This hummingbird is recorded from Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela. It also uses dry woodland, semi-deciduous forest, and shrubby edges.

• Yucatan Flycatcher Myiarchus yucatanensis

  This flycatcher inhabits thorn forest and woodland on the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican field guide notes its dull wing markings and calls as identification features.