Meet the world’s animals.

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• Roraiman Flycatcher Myiophobus roraimae

  

  A solitary forager of humid Andean forest, with a concealed orange-yellow crown patch in males.

• 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.

• Chestnut-backed Thornbird Phacellodomus dorsalis

  This ovenbird occurs in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. It has a chestnut back and tail with a white throat, and pairs forage in scrub and sparse dry woodland.

• 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.

• Uniform Finch Haplospiza unicolor

  This finch occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It inhabits moist Atlantic Forest with bamboo in the understory; males are gray and females are brown.

• Western Bronze-naped Pigeon Columba iriditorques

  The Western Bronze-naped Pigeon inhabits forests in tropical Africa. It feeds on fruit and uses habitats including riparian evergreen forest.

• Stolid Flycatcher Myiarchus stolidus

  This flycatcher has a whitish throat and upper breast, with a pale yellow lower breast and belly. It lives in forests and mangroves and feeds mainly on insects, with some fruit.

• Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens

  The mourning wheatear is a small bird of deserts and rocky highlands.

• McConnell's Spinetail Synallaxis macconnelli

  This spinetail occurs in the understory of evergreen forest and woodland in Guyana. It has a warm rufous crown and wings against a gray body.

• Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Pampa pampa

  This small hummingbird form ranges from the Yucatán Peninsula to Belize. Adult males have a shining violet crown and elongated central tail feathers.

• Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius

  Males have black heads and throats against yellow bodies, while females have brown upperparts and yellow underparts. The species lives in humid Central American forest and sallies to catch insects.

• Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon Petrophassa rufipennis

  The Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon has a dark brown body with pale spots and chestnut wing panels visible in flight. It lives among sandstone formations in northern Australia.

• Grey-hooded Flycatcher Mionectes rufiventris

  This flycatcher breeds in forests of southeastern Brazil. Records from Minas Gerais describe nests hanging over small streams from roots or fern leaves, and blue-toned plumage in young birds near fledging.

• Brown-breasted Flycatcher Muscicapa muttui

  The Brown-breasted Flycatcher breeds in northeastern India and Indochina and winters in southwestern India and Sri Lanka. The Singapore account lists it as a vagrant there.

• Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner Dendroma erythroptera

  This ovenbird forages in the mid-story and below the canopy of Amazonian forest. Its gray-brown head and back contrast with chestnut wings and tail.

• Blue-fronted Lancebill Doryfera johannae

  This hummingbird occurs in wet forest in the northern Andes. The male has a blue forehead, the female a green one, and it feeds from deep tubular flowers.

• Moss-backed Tanager Bangsia edwardsi

  This tanager inhabits humid Andean forests of Colombia and Ecuador, feeding on fruit in the canopy and insects lower in the forest.

• Tolima Dove Leptotila conoveri

  The Tolima Dove lives in the Colombian Andes. Its head is greyish, and it occurs in humid montane forest and along forest edges.

• Alagoas Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ceciliae

  A small flycatcher of the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. A foraging study often recorded birds in the canopy making sallies to take prey from foliage or the air.

• Large Niltava Niltava grandis

  The Large Niltava lives in forests from the southern Himalayan foothills across Southeast Asia. Adult males are black and blue; females are brown with a blue patch on the side of the neck.

• Grey-headed Spinetail Cranioleuca semicinerea

  This spinetail occurs in eastern Brazil. Its gray head and upperparts contrast with conspicuous rufous wings and tail.

• Gorgeted Sunangel Heliangelus strophianus

  Adult males have a violet-red throat and a sharply defined white gorget. This small hummingbird lives at forest edges in the mountains of Ecuador and northern Peru and feeds mainly on nectar.

• Dotted Tanager Ixothraupis varia

  This small tanager occurs from southern Venezuela through the Guianas to northern Amazonian Brazil. It is found in the canopy and at edges of humid forest.

• Key West Quail-Dove Geotrygon chrysia

  This dove occurs on Caribbean islands. It walks on the ground to forage and stays quiet beneath dense cover.