Meet the world’s animals.

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• Cactus Canastero Pseudasthenes cactorum

  

  A furnariid of Peru's western Andean slope, using open areas with shrubs and cacti. Some populations also occur in low-elevation lomas.

• White-eyed Attila Attila bolivianus

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in the lowlands of northern South America. It uses riverside and swamp forest, where it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• European Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

  The European Pied Flycatcher is a woodland migrant. In British breeding areas, males are black and white with two white marks on the forehead; females are more subdued brown and white.

• Short-billed Pigeon Patagioenas nigrirostris

  This pigeon ranges from southeastern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Colombia. Its body is reddish purple, with a browner belly and olive-brown upperparts.

• Unspotted Saw-whet Owl Aegolius ridgwayi

  The Unspotted Saw-whet Owl has a rounded head without ear-tufts and a brown facial disc edged in white. It is nocturnal and occurs in mountain forests from southern Mexico into Central America. Details of its diet and breeding remain poorly known.

• Rio Madeira Stipplethroat Epinecrophylla amazonica

  This antbird forages in the lower and middle forest layers of Amazonia and may join mixed-species flocks. Males and females differ in throat and wing markings.

• Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus

  The Whistling Kite is a medium-sized raptor with sandy-brown plumage, a narrow head, and a rounded tail. It circles over woodland, wetlands, and farms while giving a whistling call.

• Checker-throated Woodpecker Chrysophlegma mentale

  The Checker-throated Woodpecker is green, with a checkered pattern on its throat. It searches trunks and branches in lowland and hill forests in Borneo and nearby regions.

• Volcano Hummingbird Selasphorus flammula

  This hummingbird occurs in the high mountains of Costa Rica. It uses open páramo and scrub, and male throat colors differ among mountain populations.

• Yellow Cardinal Gubernatrix cristata

  The Yellow Cardinal is a yellow-and-black songbird, with different facial markings in males and females.

• Vilcabamba Thistletail Asthenes vilcabambae

  This thistletail is known from the Cordillera Vilcabamba in southern Peru. It inhabits elfin forest and high-altitude grassland, foraging in the understorey.

• Panama Tyrannulet Phylloscartes flavovirens

  This small tyrannulet is locally distributed in Panama. It searches for arthropods in the forest canopy and is recorded as a year-round resident.

• White-bellied Blue Robin Myiomela albiventris

  A small bird of dark shola forest and gullies in India's Western Ghats. Its blue-gray upperparts contrast with a white belly, and it searches for insects near the ground.

• Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon Treron sphenurus

  The Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon ranges from the western Himalayas through Southeast Asia and nearby islands. Males show metallic colors on the head and chest.

• Rufescent Antshrike Thamnistes rufescens

  A scarce, difficult-to-see antshrike of cloud forest on the eastern Andes. It is brown and buff, with a stout hooked bill.

• Grey Goshawk Tachyspiza novaehollandiae

  In Tasmania, this large raptor is described as white. It nests in mature wet forest near waterways and looks for prey from trees.

• Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema

  An East African montane woodpecker. The 2023 Clements Checklist treats it as a distinct species based on plumage and genetic evidence.

• Inagua Woodstar Nesophlox lyrura

  This hummingbird is restricted to Great and Little Inagua in the Bahamas. Males have an iridescent rose-purple forehead and throat and a deeply forked tail.

• Slaty Flowerpiercer Diglossa plumbea

  This flowerpiercer occurs in the highlands from Costa Rica to western Panama. It can pierce the base of a flower with its upturned bill to obtain nectar.

• Long-tailed Cinclodes Cinclodes pabsti

  This furnariid is endemic to the southern Brazilian highlands. A 2008–2011 breeding study recorded nests in cavities in road cuts.

• Agile Tit-Tyrant Uromyias agilis

  The Agile Tit-Tyrant occurs in the mountains of Colombia, western Venezuela and Ecuador. It has olive-brown upperparts, black lores and a white throat streaked with brown. It searches for insects and fruit in moist montane forest edges and thickets.

• Rufous-chested Flycatcher Ficedula dumetoria

  Southern Flores specimens are described with brown irises, black bills, and bluish-purple legs. A specimen from Tjeréng was collected in primary forest.

• Maroon-chested Ground Dove Paraclaravis mondetoura

  This nomadic dove lives in dense undergrowth of montane forests and is strongly associated with bamboo. It appears when bamboo fruits and searches on the ground for seeds and fallen fruit.

• Black-throated Antbird Myrmophylax atrothorax

  Male and female Black-throated Antbirds differ in throat and belly color. The male has a black throat and breast and forages in dense undergrowth near wetlands and streams.