Meet the world’s animals.

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• Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica

  

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs on Caribbean islands. It is found at forest edges and gardens and has dark olive-gray upperparts with a grayish-white underside washed yellow below.

• Buff-tailed Coronet Boissonneaua flavescens

  The Buff-tailed Coronet is a hummingbird of Andean montane forest. Buff or rufous edges on its tail feathers are distinctive, and it feeds on nectar and small prey.

• Russet-bellied Spinetail Synallaxis zimmeri

  This ovenbird occurs in the mountains of west-central Peru. A grey crown, rufous upper tail-coverts, and russet underparts help identify it.

• White-browed Shama Copsychus luzoniensis

  The White-browed Shama is a Philippine forest bird. A male of the nominate subspecies was observed on Mount Makiling, Luzon; the account describes the species in low thickets and vines near the ground.

• Bar-shouldered Dove Geopelia humeralis

  The Bar-shouldered Dove ranges across northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It searches for seeds in short grass and is marked by a bronze patch on the hindneck.

• Indigo Flowerpiercer Diglossa indigotica

  This tanager inhabits humid forest on the lower western Andean slopes of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Its brilliant indigo-blue plumage is distinctive.

• Orange-banded Flycatcher Nephelomyias lintoni

  This flycatcher occurs in the humid mountains of Ecuador and Peru. It has a pale eye and orange lower mandible, and takes insects from leaves or in flight.

• 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.

• Long-tailed Cinclodes Cinclodes pabsti

  This furnariid is endemic to the southern Brazilian highlands. A 2008–2011 breeding study recorded nests in cavities in road cuts.

• Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

  Males are indigo with brighter blue on the forehead and shoulders; females are olive brown. The species inhabits forests from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and beyond.

• White-eared Brown Dove Phapitreron leucotis

  The White-eared Brown Dove is a small dove endemic to the Philippines. It has a gray crown, green or violet iridescence, a brown breast, and a pale belly.

• Ruddy-breasted Seedeater Sporophila minuta

  This small seed-eater occurs from Central into South America. Males and females differ in plumage, and male coloration also varies geographically.

• Small-billed Elaenia Elaenia parvirostris

  This flycatcher ranges broadly across South America and uses forest habitat. Three wing bars can help distinguish it from the similar White-crested Elaenia.

• Marvelous Spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis

  The Marvelous Spatuletail is a hummingbird whose male has racket-shaped ornaments at the ends of its tail feathers. It visits flowers for nectar, and males use the tail in courtship.

• Tawny-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla anabatina

  This woodcreeper lives in Central American forest. Tawny flight feathers and a rufous tail stand out, and it may forage near army-ant swarms.

• Fujian Niltava Niltava davidi

  The Fujian Niltava is a flycatcher that searches for insects in woodland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Purple Quail-Dove Geotrygon purpurata

  This dove occurs only in western Colombia through northwestern Ecuador, in the wet rainforests of the Chocó. Adults show purple, blue, and iridescent colors, with a dark blue stripe across a white face. Females and juveniles are duller than males.

• Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus

  Males are purple with a black throat and yellow legs, while females have green upperparts and a greenish-blue head. The bird feeds on nectar, berries, and insects in the canopy and at forest edges.

• Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant Uromyias agraphia

  The Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant is endemic to Peru and lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope.

• Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus

  This tiny hummingbird has a rufous crest and neck plumes in males; females lack both. It feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in forest edges, open country, gardens, and cultivation.

• Elegant Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus elegans

  This roughly 21 cm woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands into foothill forest on the eastern Andes. The size and spread of its back spots vary among subspecies.

• Fiscal Flycatcher Sigelus silens

  The Fiscal Flycatcher is endemic to southern Africa. It uses open habitats with scattered trees or bushes, including grassland, fynbos, semi-arid scrub, and valley bushveld.

• Banggai Fruit Dove Ptilinopus subgularis

  The Banggai Fruit Dove occurs in Indonesia's Banggai Islands.

• Paradise Tanager Tangara chilensis

  The Paradise Tanager forages in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest in pairs or family groups, often joining mixed-species flocks. Its plumage combines green, black, blue, and a red or yellow-red rump.