Meet the world’s animals.

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• Firethroat Luscinia pectardens

  

  This small bird breeds in the mountains of southern China and winters in northeastern India. Males show a bright orange throat and breast; females are brown.

• Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus

  A mostly black bird with a broad crimson band across the throat and chest and a red rump. The sexes look alike. It ranges from southeastern Mexico to western Panama and uses wet forest.

• Black-thighed Puffleg Eriocnemis derbyi

  The Black-thighed Puffleg is an Andean hummingbird with metallic green and bronze plumage. The sexes differ in their leg feathers and underparts, and detailed breeding records remain limited.

• Black-capped Foliage-gleaner Philydor atricapillus

  This furnariid is covered in a regional guide to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its dark crown and rufous eyebrow stand out as it searches among foliage in the lower forest.

• Little Ground Tyrant Syrtidicola fluviatilis

  The Little Ground Tyrant is a small flycatcher of broad river beaches and mudflats. In 2014, one bird was recorded on a sandbar of the Napo River in Ecuador; the paper considered it a non-breeding visitor.

• Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis

  A brown dove with white spots across a black collar on the back of its neck. In Australian cities and parks, introduced wild birds forage mostly on the ground for seeds and scraps.

• Andaman Shama Copsychus albiventris

  This long-tailed shama lives in the forests of the Andaman Islands. An observer describes it as similar to the mainland Oriental Magpie-Robin, but with a white belly. It has been heard singing in the lower forest.

• Rufous-breasted Warbling Finch Poospiza rubecula

  This finch occurs in a restricted area of the western Peruvian Andes. Adult males have a slate-grey back and tail, black face, and rufous forehead, eyebrow, and breast. A 1994 field visit recorded small groups feeding in low branches and on vegetated ground.

• Golden-bellied Starfrontlet Coeligena bonapartei

  The Golden-bellied Starfrontlet is a hummingbird of cloud forests and other wooded openings in Colombia's eastern Andes. It has a black head and a long, straight black bill, and feeds on nectar.

• Ruddy Treerunner Margarornis rubiginosus

  This ovenbird lives in the mountain forests of Costa Rica and Panama. It has bright rufous upperparts and a white eyebrow, and eats insects and spiders.

• Lemon-browed Flycatcher Conopias cinchoneti

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope. The Peru account gives an elevational range of 800–1,950 m and notes that it also occurs in Colombia and Ecuador.

• Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis

  A small bird with black-and-white plumage and a long tail, found from the Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia.

• Black-crested Finch Lophospingus pusillus

  This small finch occurs in South American Chaco woodland, woodland edges and grasslands. Its usual range extends from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to west-central Argentina. A bird recorded near Mendoza city in 2024 may have escaped or been released.

• Beautiful Hummingbird Calothorax pulcher

  A small hummingbird of dry interior scrub and brushy woodland in southwestern Mexico; cactus flowers are a frequent food source.

• Peruvian Treehunter Thripadectes scrutator

  This ovenbird forages in the dense understory of humid Andean montane forest. The source uses the English name “Buff-throated Treehunter” for the same scientific name and gives an eastern-Andes range in Peru and Bolivia.

• Greater Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura budytoides

  A flycatcher with a very long, white-tipped tail; it is also recorded in Argentine scrublands and protected areas.

• Jerdon's Bush Chat Saxicola jerdoni

  This bush chat lives in grassland and other semi-open habitats. It is active by day and takes invertebrates from the ground.

• Sulphur-rumped Tanager Heterospingus rubrifrons

  This tanager occurs in lowland forests from eastern Costa Rica to Panama. Its nest was described in detail for the first time from a 2023 observation in Costa Rica.

• Hispaniolan Emerald Riccordia swainsonii

  The Hispaniolan Emerald is a small hummingbird of forests and scrub on Hispaniola. It feeds on flower nectar and also takes fruit. Older accounts may use the former genus Chlorostilbon; this entry keeps the candidate pool's scientific name.

• Southern Long-tailed Woodcreeper Deconychura pallida

  *Deconychura pallida* is an Amazonian bird separated in research from the formerly broad *D. longicauda* group. A 2010 study reported distinct vocal characters among its lineages.

• 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.

• Sunda Blue Robin Myiomela diana

  This robin lives in Java’s mountains. In a 2020 specimen study, males were glossy dark blue while females had mainly chestnut plumage.

• Golden Tanager Tangara arthus

  The Golden Tanager combines golden plumage with a black ear patch and chestnut throat. It forages in the canopy of montane forest on the eastern Andes.

• Fiery-tailed Awlbill Avocettula recurvirostris

  The Fiery-tailed Awlbill is a small hummingbird with a bill that curves upward at the tip. It occurs in northern South America and visits flowering trees and shrubs for nectar.