Meet the world’s animals.

Photos: 12,813 · Stories: 19,540

• Nilgiri Flycatcher Eumyias albicaudatus

  

  The Nilgiri Flycatcher occurs in India's Western Ghats. Males are greenish indigo-blue with white patches at the tail base; females are smaller and grey-brown.

• Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura

  This small hummingbird lives in mountains and valleys from southern Mexico into northern Central America. The male has a very long forked tail; the female’s is shorter.

• Buff-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes fuscus

  A small bird recorded on Tierra del Fuego's Isla Grande, it has a brown body and a long white eyebrow. It walks along water edges searching for insects and small invertebrates.

• Zenaida Dove Zenaida aurita

  Zenaida Doves use low-elevation fields, forests, dense vegetation, and some suburban or urban habitats.

• Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus diops

  This small tyrant flycatcher has olive upperparts, a white eye-ring, a grey breast, and yellow at the bend of the wing. It occurs from south-eastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to north-eastern Argentina, foraging in the understory of humid forest and secondary growth, especially bamboo patches.

• Gray Seedeater Sporophila intermedia

  Males in mature plumage are dark gray and white, while females are yellow-olive and buff. The species was studied in the lowlands of Colombia's upper Magdalena Valley.

• Chapin's Flycatcher Muscicapa lendu

  This flycatcher lives in humid mountain forests and sallies from branches to catch flying insects.

• Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii

  Canivet's Emerald ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Costa Rica. It visits flowers in woodland edges and scrub to feed on nectar.

• Western Woodhaunter Automolus virgatus

  The Western Woodhaunter is a secretive bird of humid-forest understory from Central America into northwestern South America. Birds Colombia notes that some taxonomies recognize it as a separate species while others do not.

• Blue-headed Quail-Dove Starnoenas cyanocephala

  This pigeon lives in Cuba's forests. Its bluish head and black-and-white facial markings stand out, and it searches for food on the ground.

• Crowned Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix frontalis

  This small Andean bird occurs in forest and scrub. The central Peru-to-Bolivia population has been proposed as a separate species.

• Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus

  The species is common in Panama and uses gardens, shrubby clearings, second-growth woodland, and forest edges. It moves between trees while searching for fruit and insects.

• Siberian blue robin Luscinia cyane

  A bird of shaded forest undergrowth whose male has a blue back.

• Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis

  This hummingbird lives on the western Andean slope of Colombia and Ecuador. Males have long violet-blue tails; females are smaller and lack the long tail.

• Greater Scythebill Drymotoxeres pucheranii

  An Andean treehunter of humid mountain forest, with a very long downcurved pale bill and a rufous body marked by pale streaks.

• Spice Imperial Pigeon Ducula myristicivora

  The Spice Imperial Pigeon is a large fruit-eating pigeon found on islands off western New Guinea. A black knob at the base of its bill and iridescent green wings help identify it.

• Brownish Elaenia Elaenia pelzelni

  This flycatcher is restricted to riverine habitats in the Amazon basin, especially islands and forest edges along the Amazon and Napo rivers. It is often associated with early growth that includes Cecropia trees.

• Small Tree Finch Camarhynchus parvulus

  This small Darwin's finch lives in highlands and forest transition zones of the Galápagos. The male's black hood develops with age, with differences among islands.

• Mountain Wheatear Oenanthe monticola

  This bird occurs in the rocky uplands and open grasslands of southern Africa. Some current accounts use the genus combination Myrmecocichla.

• Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti

  This small hummingbird lives in the highlands from southern Mexico to northern Central America. Males have a gleaming wine-red throat, and the birds use mountain forest edges and scrub where they feed on nectar.

• Eastern Woodhaunter Automolus subulatus

  This woodhaunter lives in the humid forest understory of the western Amazon. It searches among leaves and epiphytes for small arthropods.

• Pink Pigeon Nesoenas mayeri

  Endemic to Mauritius, this island pigeon has soft pinkish-gray plumage and a red bill. It feeds on fruits and seeds in remaining native forest and helps disperse seeds.

• Guatemalan Tyrannulet Zimmerius vilissimus

  A small tyrannulet ranging from southern Mexico to northwestern Colombia. It forages in the canopy and along forest edges, including second-growth woodland.

• 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.