Meet the world’s animals.

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• Flammulated Flycatcher Ramphotrigon flammulatum

  

  This flycatcher lives in brush and thorn forest from lowlands into foothills of western Mexico. It can be hard to notice while quiet; a 2013 recording from Jalisco captured a male singing from a tree along a trail.

• Gray-winged Inca-Finch Incaspiza ortizi

  This finch lives in dry scrub in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. Its gray and brown body has a dark facial pattern, and it searches for food in low shrubs.

• Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis

  This leaftosser ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador. It inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest and forages for invertebrates on the ground.

• Mountain Robin-Chat Cossypha isabellae

  This bird has dark olive-brown upperparts, a white line in front of the eye and orange-rufous underparts. It is recorded in montane forests of western Cameroon and southeastern Nigeria; a Cameroon survey found it in primary and secondary forest.

• Streak-throated Hermit Phaethornis rupurumii

  The Streak-throated Hermit occurs in the Amazon region of northern South America. It has pale green-gold upperparts, a black-streaked throat, and long central tail feathers with white tips.

• White-collared Pigeon Columba albitorques

  The White-collared Pigeon lives in the highlands of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It has a white collar on the back of its neck and makes daily movements between feeding and roosting sites.

• White-throated Tyrannulet Mecocerculus leucophrys

  The White-throated Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid Andean mountain forests. It searches the canopy and the layer below, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.

• Black-chinned Mountain Tanager Anisognathus notabilis

  This tanager occurs on the Pacific slope of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. A Colombian field study suggested that it depends on humid primary montane forest.

• Spot-throated Woodcreeper Certhiasomus stictolaemus

  This woodcreeper forages low in humid Amazonian forest. Its head and body are olive brown, its wings and tail chestnut-rufous, and pale spots mark the throat and breast.

• Olivaceous Flycatcher Muscicapa olivascens

  This small flycatcher lives in humid forests of West and Central Africa. It launches from a perch to catch insects in the air.

• Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus

  This hummingbird occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. In Peru it is recorded in humid montane forest and in humid or semi-deciduous forest in western Piura.

• Common Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus

  A large pigeon with a gray body and conspicuous white patches on its neck and wings.

• Galapagos Flycatcher Myiarchus magnirostris

  The Galapagos Flycatcher lives in island forests and feeds mainly on insects, as well as fruit and flowers. It nests in cavities in trees and cacti.

• Piura Hemispingus Sphenopsis piurae

  Sphenopsis piurae is recorded in southern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A specialist species account reports it in bamboo patches.

• Steinbach's Canastero Pseudasthenes steinbachi

  Steinbach's Canastero is a small bird of dry mountains in western Argentina. It is seen alone or in pairs among scrub and ravines.

• Kalahari Scrub Robin Erythropygia paena

  This small bird lives in dry grassland and shrubland of southern Africa. Sandy-brown upperparts contrast with pale underparts, and the rusty rump and tail stand out. It forages near the ground and has a varied song.

• Hooded Visorbearer Augastes lumachella

  This small hummingbird lives on the highlands of Bahia in eastern Brazil. It feeds in open rocky scrub and is described as sedentary.

• Palau Ground Dove Pampusana canifrons

  This ground dove lives on Palau’s islands. A male specimen was described with a grey head and breast and a bronze-toned back.

• Highland Elaenia Elaenia obscura

  The Highland Elaenia inhabits mountain forest and forest edges on the eastern Andes. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and yellowish underparts, and searches the canopy for insects and berries.

• Gray-capped Hemispingus Kleinothraupis reyi

  The Gray-capped Hemispingus is found in the northwestern Venezuelan Andes. Its gray hood-like crown contrasts with yellowish-olive plumage.

• 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.

• Reunion Stonechat Saxicola tectes

  This stonechat lives on Réunion. Males show a white eyebrow and wing patch and an orange breast, while the sexes differ in color.

• Scaled Metaltail Metallura aeneocauda

  This small hummingbird lives in humid highland forest on the eastern Andes. Adult males and females differ in tail and throat color.

• Mountain Imperial Pigeon Ducula badia

  The Mountain Imperial Pigeon has a dark maroon-brown back and pale purplish-grey head and underparts. In Borneo it is common in montane forest, and some birds fly to lowlands to feed.