Meet the world’s animals.

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• Parrot-billed Seedeater Sporophila peruviana

  

  This small seed-eater occurs along the Pacific lowlands of western Ecuador and Peru. Its unusually large, thick bill is a clear feature.

• White-fronted Tyrannulet Acrochordopus zeledoni

  The White-fronted Tyrannulet ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It has an olive back, bluish-grey crown, and a pale eyebrow that meets across the forehead. It uses moist mountain-forest canopy and edges, feeding on insects and small berries.

• 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.

• Northern Tropical Peewee Contopus bogotensis

  The Northern Tropical Peewee is a small flycatcher with a disjunct range in Central America and northern South America. It was separated from Southern Tropical Pewee and other former groups in the 2022 taxonomy.

• Capped Conebill Conirostrum albifrons

  This small conebill occurs in Andean forest. A field guide for the Sibundoy region describes sex-related head patterns and canopy foraging.

• Suiriri Flycatcher Suiriri suiriri

  A flycatcher of dry savanna and open woodland in South America. A gray head, olive-brown back, and two gray wingbars help identify it.

• Espanola Cactus Finch Geospiza conirostris

  The Large Cactus Finch is a Darwin's finch of the Galápagos, with a varied diet that includes Opuntia cactus. Here the account follows the Trust's treatment of the Española Island population.

• Three-striped Flycatcher Conopias trivirgatus

  Adults show a dark crown, white eyebrow, black eye-mask, and yellow throat and belly. The Peru Aves account describes them feeding in the canopy of seasonally flooded forest and along forest edges.

• Orange-eared Tanager Chlorochrysa calliparaea

  This tanager occurs in Andean forests from Colombia to Bolivia. Males are green with orange patches around the ears and on the rump; females are duller. It forages with mixed flocks in the canopy and subcanopy.

• Golden-crowned Flycatcher Myiodynastes chrysocephalus

  This flycatcher inhabits humid Andean montane forest. Its yellow crown patch can be concealed, while a broad white eyebrow and streaked yellow underparts are conspicuous.

• Masked Cardinal Paroaria nigrogenis

  This tanager-like bird occurs in northeastern Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It uses wetlands and mangroves near water.

• Yellow-browed Tyrant Satrapa icterophrys

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs widely in South America. It has olive upperparts and bright yellow underparts; a study on Carabajal Island in Argentina found both animal and plant material in stomach samples.

• Yellow-bellied Dacnis Dacnis flaviventer

  This dacnis occurs in Amazonian rainforest near rivers and in wetlands. Males have a yellow belly and red eye; females are olive-brown above.

• 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.

• Brown Tanager Orchesticus abeillei

  This tanager occurs in montane forest in southeastern Brazil. Its face, forehead and eyebrow are cinnamon-brown, while the head and back are greyer brown.

• Piura Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca piurae

  The Piura Chat-Tyrant occurs on the western Andean slope of northwestern Peru. It has a brown back, broad white eyebrow, and rufous wing bars.

• Rufous-headed Tanager Hemithraupis ruficapilla

  This tanager occurs in southeastern and eastern Brazil, in moist lowland and montane forest, second growth, and plantations.

• Fire-eyed Diucon Pyrope pyrope

  The Fire-eyed Diucon is a grey flycatcher with a red iris. In northwestern Patagonia, it uses humid forest edges, clearings and urban green spaces while catching insects.

• Wedge-tailed Grass Finch Emberizoides herbicola

  This grassland bird has a wedge-shaped tail longer than half its body. It searches among grasses for insects and defends a territory as a breeding pair.

• Yungas Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus spodiops

  This small bird lives in humid montane forest and dense second growth on the eastern Andes. Greenish-brown upperparts and two thin yellow-edged wing bars are distinctive.

• 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.

• Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis ecaudatus

  The Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant has a grey crown and a very short tail. In Amazonia it forages in the midstory and subcanopy of mature forest and tall second growth.

• Pearly-bellied Seedeater Sporophila pileata

  This seedeater is recorded in southern and southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Argentina. Adult male plumage ranges from pale pinkish cinnamon to warm ochre-brown. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of S. bouvreuil.

• Western Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis

  The Western Flycatcher is a small flycatcher that breeds in mountain forests of western North America. It darts into forest gaps to catch flying insects.