Meet the world’s animals.

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• Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper Drymornis bridgesii

  

  It is active by day in open woodland and the Chaco, where it searches the ground for invertebrates. Its body is about 29–35 cm long.

• Blue-throated Sapphire Chlorestes eliciae

  The male is a small hummingbird with a blue-violet throat and bronzy-golden tail. It feeds mainly on nectar and also takes small arthropods.

• Marquesan Ground Dove Pampusana rubescens

  The Marquesan Ground Dove is a ground-dwelling pigeon with a gray head and breast and a reddish-purple back. It turns through leaf litter as it searches for seeds and ants.

• Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata

  The Greenish Elaenia has a concealed yellow crown patch. In Bolivia it occurs in woodland and wooded savanna, with lowland records varying by season.

• Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus

  This bird lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. It has a green back, white eyebrow, and pale throat edged in black, and feeds on fruit and insects in the lower vegetation.

• Hooded Wheatear Oenanthe monacha

  The Hooded Wheatear is a flycatcher relative of bare desert valleys and canyons. Males are black and white; females and young birds are paler.

• Peruvian Recurvebill Syndactyla ucayalae

  It forages mainly in stands of Guadua bamboo, using a thick bill with an upturned lower mandible. In southeastern Peru it is rare and local, and is seen alone or in pairs.

• Rufous-crested Coquette Lophornis delattrei

  The Rufous-crested Coquette is a tiny hummingbird of humid forest edges and nearby clearings in Central and South America. Males have a long rufous crest that females lack.

• Pinon's Imperial Pigeon Ducula pinon

  Pinon's Imperial Pigeon is a large bird with a grey-lavender body, darker wings, a maroon belly and a vivid red eye region. In forests across New Guinea and nearby islands, it feeds mainly on fruit in the canopy.

• Giant Kingbird Tyrannus cubensis

  This large tyrant flycatcher has a massive black bill and orange crown feathers that may be raised in display. Its range is restricted to forested parts of Cuba.

• Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus

  This is a honeycreeper with a short bill. In 2000, one male was recorded at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.

• Sooty Chat Myrmecocichla nigra

  The Sooty Chat is a chat whose male has black plumage and a white wing patch. Females and juveniles are brown, and the species forages on the ground in grassland.

• Buffy Tuftedcheek Pseudocolaptes lawrencii

  The Buffy Tuftedcheek inhabits wet mountain forests in Costa Rica and western Panama. A study in Costa Rica recorded it searching among the leaves of epiphytic bromeliads for arthropods.

• Rufous Sabrewing Pampa rufa

  A large hummingbird of the Pacific slope from southern Mexico to El Salvador. It is green above and rufous below and on the tail, and is recorded in forests and coffee plantations.

• Pemba Green Pigeon Treron pembaensis

  The Pemba Green Pigeon has an olive-green back and a gray head and underside. It lives in forests, plantations, and rural areas on Pemba, often near fruit trees.

• Grey-headed Elaenia Myiopagis caniceps

  The Grey-headed Elaenia is a small canopy bird of eastern South America. It gleans insects from leaves and twigs and also eats small fruits; southernmost birds may move north during the austral winter. Older accounts can use a broader species concept, so this entry follows Myiopagis caniceps.

• Chestnut-backed Tanager Stilpnia preciosa

  This tanager lives in forests and forest edges of southeastern South America, feeding on fruit and canopy insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Collared Palm Thrush Cichladusa arquata

  This bird lives in palm-rich woodland and scrub in eastern and southern Africa. Its pale throat and breast contrast with a narrow black band at the front of the neck.

• Scale-throated Earthcreeper Upucerthia dumetaria

  In northwestern Patagonia, this ground-dwelling bird uses forest edges and shrub steppe. It walks as it forages and nests in tunnels dug in soil.

• Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus

  This hummingbird lives in the understory of Amazonian forest. It has dark green plumage, a buff neck band, and a pale stripe on the cheek. Tail color varies among subspecies.

• Ruddy Quail-Dove Geotrygon montana

  The Ruddy Quail-Dove is a shy dove of tropical forests that searches for food on the forest floor.

• Slaty-headed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus sylvia

  The species ranges from Central America into northern South America. The page's photo is the Mexican subspecies schistaceiceps, showing a gray head and white eye-rings.

• Green-capped Tanager Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei

  This small tanager has a thick bill, a small black mask, and blue-green wings and tail.

• White-winged Cliff Chat Monticola semirufus

  This chat occurs in rocky parts of the Ethiopian Highlands. Both sexes have a large white patch in the middle of the wing; males have a black hood and a red-orange belly.