Meet the world’s animals.

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• Helmeted Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus galeatus

  

  This small flycatcher has a black crest and yellowish olive upperparts. It forages in the understory of forests on nutrient-poor soils.

• Slaty Finch Haplospiza rustica

  Male Slaty Finches are lead-gray with a long, pointed bill. The species occurs from Central to South America and feeds mainly on bamboo seeds at moist highland forest edges.

• Cream-winged Cinclodes Cinclodes albiventris

  This cinclodes occurs in the high Andes. It has a brown back, pale eyebrow, spotted breast and pale wing stripe, and walks on the ground to forage in grassland and by water.

• Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa

  This small flycatcher inhabits lowland and foothill forest in West and Central Africa. Dark chocolate-brown plumage, long pointed wings, and high perches on dead trees are characteristic.

• Magenta-throated Woodstar Calliphlox bryantae

  This small hummingbird occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Adult males have a magenta throat, white collar, and long forked tail. The species uses forest edges, secondary growth, and scrub, and is described as solitary. Some checklists place it in Philodice rather than Calliphlox.

• Flock Bronzewing Phaps histrionica

  Flock Bronzewings are nomadic ground-feeding pigeons. Inland Queensland observations describe movements following rain and seasonal food availability.

• Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes reguloides

  The Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant can raise its crown feathers and has black-and-white mottled plumage. A 2016–2017 urban-flora survey in Trujillo, northern Peru, recorded it searching algarrobo, acacia, and ponciana branches for food.

• Deep-blue Flowerpiercer Diglossa glauca

  A flowerpiercer of wet Andean montane forest from Colombia to Bolivia.

• Red-billed Woodcreeper Hylexetastes perrotii

  This woodcreeper inhabits moist lowland forest in South America. It searches trunks and branches for arthropods.

• Malaysian Blue Flycatcher Cyornis turcosus

  The male has deep blue upperparts and an orange throat and breast. In lowland forest understory, it catches flying insects in short sallies from a low perch.

• Blue-chested Hummingbird Polyerata amabilis

  Males have a purple-blue throat and green back, while females have a spotted chest. The bird is seen low along forest edges and in shrubby second growth.

• Rose-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus regina

  The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove has a pink crown and green back and feeds on fruit. It swallows fruit whole in the canopy, where it may be detected by its call or by fruit dropping below.

• Rufescent Flycatcher Myiophobus rufescens

  This flycatcher ranges along the western Andes from northern Peru to far northern Chile. It has two rufous wing bars and is recorded from forest edges to dry scrub.

• Black-chested Mountain Tanager Cnemathraupis eximia

  This tanager inhabits high-elevation forests and scrub in the northern Andes. It eats fruit and insects and moves through the canopy in small or mixed flocks.

• Rusty-fronted Canastero Asthenes ottonis

  The Rusty-fronted Canastero is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub of the high Andes.

• Tessmann's Flycatcher Muscicapa tessmanni

  This flycatcher was recorded in a Ghanaian forest survey. The 2009 paper uses the older genus Muscicapa, while a current species page lists it as Fraseria tessmanni.

• Dusky Hummingbird Phaeoptila sordida

  This hummingbird occurs in Mexico. Its upperparts are pale green, with a whitish stripe and dark patch behind the eye. It uses dry areas with scattered trees or shrubs and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Maranon Pigeon Patagioenas oenops

  The Maranon Pigeon occurs in the upper Marañón Valley of the northern Andes. It feeds on plant seeds in woodland and along forest edges.

• Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits wet grasslands near marshes. The breeding male is conspicuous for its elongated tail and bare throat, which turns red; females are brown.

• Black-throated Grosbeak Saltator fuliginosus

  The Black-throated Grosbeak lives in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest and nearby regions. It searches for fruit and seeds in the middle forest layer, sometimes in mixed-species flocks.

• Rufous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis erythrothorax

  The Rufous-breasted Spinetail uses secondary forest and second-growth scrub, gleaning invertebrates from vegetation. A historical museum account describes plumage of specimens from southern Mexico and Central America.

• Slaty-backed Flycatcher Ficedula erithacus

  The Slaty-backed Flycatcher lives in hilly and montane forest, and males and females have different plumage.

• Green-throated Carib Eulampis holosericeus

  The Green-throated Carib is a Caribbean hummingbird with an iridescent green throat and chest, a blue band beneath them, and black underparts. It uses flower nectar.

• Sclater's Crowned Pigeon Goura sclaterii

  A large crowned-pigeon of southern New Guinea's lowland rainforests, with a crest that extends far back and a blue-gray body.