Meet the world’s animals.

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• Indian Robin Saxicoloides fulicatus

  

  This small bird ranges across the Indian subcontinent and uses gardens and scrub. It searches for insects on the ground; the male is black with a rufous belly.

• Speckled Tanager Ixothraupis guttata

  The Speckled Tanager lives mainly in the canopy of humid montane forest from Central America to northern South America.

• Black-hooded Sunbeam Aglaeactis pamela

  This hummingbird has a dark head, white breast feathers, and a shining blue rump. It feeds at flowers in Bolivia's highlands.

• White-throated Cacholote Pseudoseisura gutturalis

  This large ovenbird family member is recorded in Argentina's dry scrub and steppe. It is grey-brown, with a white throat and long pointed tail feathers.

• Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus

  It has a black eye-mask, yellow belly, and warm reddish-brown flashes in the wings. It inhabits open woodland and waterside areas from south Texas through Central and South America.

• Plain-breasted Ground Dove Columbina minuta

  The Plain-breasted Ground Dove feeds on seeds and fruit on the ground in dry grasslands and other open habitats. Males have a blue-gray head; females are paler.

• Dull-blue Flycatcher Eumyias sordidus

  This blue flycatcher is endemic to Sri Lanka and occurs in the central hills and humid wet-zone. A study in Horton Plains cloud forest found nests in tree holes and road-bank cavities; beetles were the main food recorded for nestlings.

• Great Pampa-Finch Embernagra platensis

  This large finch lives in shrubby grasslands and marshes in southern South America. It has a long tail and a strong orange-yellow bill; back and vent colors vary among forms.

• Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna

  Anna's Hummingbird has iridescent green plumage and a rose-pink throat. Males climb high and dive during courtship.

• Cinereous-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis hypospodia

  The PeruAves account also records this species in Brazil and Bolivia. It has a rufous crown and wings, a gray tail, and a black throat.

• Yellow-throated Flycatcher Conopias parvus

  It occurs east of the Andes in South America. Its black crown, white eyebrow, and yellow throat and belly are distinctive; it uses the canopy and edges of humid forest.

• 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.

• Miombo scrub-robin Erythropygia barbata

  A bird of broadleaf miombo woodland, with a brown back and a rufous chest.

• Woodpecker Finch Camarhynchus pallidus

  The sexes look alike, with brown-toned plumage. In the dry season it may use a twig or cactus spine as a tool to pull larvae from holes in wood.

• Garnet-throated Hummingbird Lamprolaima rhami

  The Garnet-throated Hummingbird has a bright pink throat and violet chest in adult males; females have dark grey underparts. It inhabits highland forests from Mexico to Honduras.

• Dusky-capped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes fuscicapillus

  The Dusky-capped Woodcreeper inhabits humid lowland forest in the southern Amazon. Its strongly streaked underside and canopy foraging are described in the species account.

• Large Elaenia Elaenia spectabilis

  This South American flycatcher has three white wing bars and a weak or absent crest. In Bolivia it is recorded in woodland, second growth and forest edges, where it takes insects and fruit.

• European Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur

  A small dove seen in Britain in spring and summer. Its chestnut-and-black mottled back and ground-feeding habits make it distinctive.

• Rufous-throated Flycatcher Ficedula rufigula

  This small flycatcher is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It searches the lower forest growth for small invertebrates.

• Cinnamon Warbling Finch Poospiza ornata

  This small finch has a gray face and back, a chestnut patch on the mid-back, and cinnamon tones on its eyebrow and underparts. It breeds in Argentina’s Monte Desert and moves north-east in winter.

• Mexican Hermit Phaethornis mexicanus

  A study of the western Mexican subspecies griseoventer describes males displaying at leks in the forest understory, where females visit and choose a mate.

• Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus

  This foliage-gleaner ranges from eastern Central America into northern South America and the western Amazon. In current taxonomy it is separate from two closely related species with which it was formerly grouped.

• Mottle-backed Elaenia Elaenia gigas

  This large elaenia ranges from southeastern Colombia through eastern Ecuador and Peru to western Bolivia. Its raised crest and white crown patch stand out, and it uses moist shrubland, landslides, riparian growth, and forest clearings.

• Golden-spotted Ground Dove Metriopelia aymara

  The Golden-spotted Ground Dove is a small, compact, drab-brown dove with golden spots on its wings. It walks on the ground while searching for food in the high Andes.