Meet the world’s animals.

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• Scaled Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes squamatus

  

  This roughly 19 cm woodcreeper inhabits forests in northeastern and southeastern Brazil. It favors forest edges, joins mixed flocks, and searches trunks and leaves for insects.

• Southern Black Flycatcher Melaenornis pammelaina

  The Southern Black Flycatcher is a small African flycatcher found in woodland, grassland, and some settled areas. It is seen alone or in pairs.

• Lucifer Hummingbird Calothorax lucifer

  The Lucifer Hummingbird occurs mainly in central and northern Mexico. It hovers while taking nectar from flowers.

• Ringed Warbling Finch Microspingus torquatus

  This small bird lives in dry Andean scrub and open woodland. Females are duller overall and have a narrower, paler breast band.

• Northern Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus arenarum

  This small flycatcher ranges from Central America into northern South America. It uses mangroves, nearby vegetation, and scrubby second growth while searching for food.

• Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus

  A dove of dry savanna woodland and scrub that feeds on grass and other small seeds. It is also found near water.

• Sulphur-bearded Reedhaunter Limnoctites sulphuriferus

  This reedhaunter is recorded in Argentine wet grassland. Accounts describe a yellow throat patch and a local association with sedge marshes and pampas grassland.

• White-chested Alethe Chamaetylas fuelleborni

  This flycatcher inhabits high forests in southeastern Africa. It searches for invertebrates near the forest floor; tracking of one bird suggests seasonal elevation changes.

• Blue-headed Hummingbird Riccordia bicolor

  Males have blue-violet on the head and throat while females have green upperparts and grey-white underparts; the species uses mountain wet forest on Dominica and Martinique.

• Chestnut-vented Conebill Conirostrum speciosum

  The male has a gray-blue back and chestnut vent and is found in forest canopy and along forest edges. Females have different brown and olive tones.

• Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis

  A flycatcher with bright yellow underparts, a pale eye-stripe, and a black face, commonly seen in open countryside in Latin America.

• White-breasted Ground Dove Pampusana jobiensis

  A dove from the islands around New Guinea. The New Guinea form has a dark purple back and a white breast patch.

• Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner Neophilydor fuscipenne

  The Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner inhabits moist lowland and montane forests. It has rufous-brown upperparts and dark slate-colored wings.

• Nimba Flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae

  This black flycatcher is recorded in Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest National Park. It lives inside primary forest and catches insects in the canopy or from crevices in branches.

• 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.

• Emerald Tanager Tangara florida

  The Emerald Tanager searches for fruit in the canopy of humid montane forest and also finds small invertebrates in moss on branches.

• Yellow-crowned Elaenia Myiopagis flavivertex

  A small flycatcher of northern Amazonian lowlands. Peru Aves describes olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and fine yellow wing-bars.

• Grey-fronted Dove Leptotila rufaxilla

  The Grey-fronted Dove is a ground-dwelling dove widespread in South America. A study in Acre found nests near forest edges and reported that breeding records peaked in the rainy season.

• White-chinned Thistletail Asthenes fuliginosa

  The White-chinned Thistletail occurs in the Andes. A Bogotá bird guide describes it foraging among foliage and branches, alone or in pairs.

• Chinese Blue-flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans

  A small flycatcher that breeds in western China and winters farther south in Southeast Asia. It is a rare passage migrant and winter visitor in Hong Kong.

• Blue-capped Hummingbird Eupherusa cyanophrys

  The Blue-capped Hummingbird is a mountain species in southern Mexico; the male has a vivid blue-violet forecrown.

• Fulvous-crested Tanager Tachyphonus surinamus

  This tanager lives in forests of northern Amazonia. The male is black with a fulvous crest, while the female has an olive back and gray head.

• Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes alpinus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It moves along outer branches in Polylepis woodland and searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• White-bellied Green Pigeon Treron sieboldii

  The White-bellied Green Pigeon is a green pigeon with a noticeable white belly and uses mountain forests in East Asia.