Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cinnamon Ground Dove Gallicolumba rufigula

  

  The Cinnamon Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon with a golden patch of breast feathers. It walks on the forest floor in rain and monsoon forests of New Guinea and nearby islands.

• Thyolo Alethe Pseudalethe choloensis

  This forest bird occurs around the Thyolo Highlands of southern Malawi. It has rusty upperparts and searches among leaf litter for small arthropods.

• Spot-crowned Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes affinis

  A woodcreeper of montane forests from Mexico through Central America. It is recognized by its spotted crown, slender curved bill, and habit of climbing trunks to search for food.

• Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii

  The male is black with a red rump, while the female has a gray head and a mustard-colored rump. They blend among branches and eat fruit and small arthropods.

• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

  The Band-tailed Barbthroat has green upperparts and a banded tail. It visits flowers for nectar in humid forest and ranges from Central America to northwestern South America.

• Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It has a gray head and back, rufous wings and tail, and a pale yellow underside, and forages in semi-open places.

• White-throated Ground Dove Pampusana xanthonura

  The male is white over the upper body, while the female is earthy brown. It forages mainly on the ground on Yap, but in trees and bushes in the Mariana Islands.

• Rufous-vented Niltava Niltava sumatrana

  This flycatcher inhabits montane evergreen broad-leaved forest on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. Males have blue heads and upperparts; the plumage details here are specifically for males.

• Tapajos Scythebill Campylorhamphus probatus

  A scythebill occurring in the lowland Amazon of Brazil. The appearance and foraging details here apply only to subspecies cardosoi under the current treatment.

• Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina

  The Blue-black Grassquit is a small bird found widely in grasslands and farmland from Mexico to South America. During courtship, the male jumps upward and reveals white shoulder patches.

• Black-throated Brilliant Heliodoxa schreibersii

  This hummingbird occurs in scattered foothill populations on the eastern Andes. In northeastern Peru its range extends from foothills into Amazonian lowlands.

• Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minor

  Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant occurs in dense understory in the Amazon Basin. In Peru, the account reports only a few sight records along the Yavarí River.

• Eared Dove Zenaida auriculata

  This widespread South American dove has black spots on the neck and wings and reddish legs. It may gather in flocks in open areas and towns.

• Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia

  This bird has a grey-brown back and a paler belly. It is active at dusk and at night, singing loudly from waterside thickets.

• Short-billed Canastero Asthenes baeri

  The Short-billed Canastero is a small furnariid of Argentina's open scrub and sparse woodland. Its grey-brown back and chestnut throat patch stand out, and it searches for food on the ground.

• Turquoise Dacnis Dacnis hartlaubi

  The Turquoise Dacnis is endemic to Colombia’s Andes. Adult males are blue-green and black, while females are mostly brown above; its diet is still poorly known.

• Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis vesper

  This hummingbird occurs in dry Pacific coastal areas of Peru and northern Chile. Males perform courtship displays that include close shuttle flights and repeated dives.

• Kalinowski’s Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix spodionota

  A chat-tyrant recorded in the central Peruvian Andes and Bolivia. It has cinnamon-colored wing bars.

• Pallid Dove Leptotila pallida

  This brown-toned dove has white tips on its tail. It uses humid forest and older secondary growth, walking on the ground to feed on plant seeds and other material.

• Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae

  The Gambaga Flycatcher is a small flycatcher identified in part by faint breast streaks and a yellowish-orange lower mandible. It occurs in Africa and southwestern Arabia; breeding activity was observed in Yemen in May.

• Vilcabamba Spinetail Cranioleuca weskei

  The Vilcabamba Spinetail occurs in south-central Peru. Its 1984 description treated it as Cranioleuca marcapatae weskei; the 2025 Clements checklist recognizes it as a separate species.

• Black-legged Dacnis Dacnis nigripes

  This small bird lives in moist forests of south-eastern Brazil, and males and females have very different plumage.

• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl

  The Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is known for the male's glittering green throat and coppery tail. It feeds on nectar as well as small insects and spiders.

• Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus

  This flycatcher occurs in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peru Aves account says it forages at different heights along forest edges and in second growth.