Meet the world’s animals.

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• Tucuman Mountain Finch Poospiza baeri

  

  This finch occurs in the Tucuman Mountain area of Argentina and Bolivia. Its grayish body is marked with orange-rufous on the forehead, eyebrow, and throat.

• 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.

• Short-tailed Field Tyrant Muscigralla brevicauda

  It has a gray head, white wing bars, long legs, and a short tail. It searches for food on the ground in open places and occurs in western Peru and nearby areas.

• Blue-fronted Robin Cinclidium frontale

  Males are indigo with brighter blue on the forehead and shoulders; females are olive brown. The species inhabits forests from the eastern Himalayas to southwestern China and beyond.

• Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto

  A pale gray-brown dove with a black neck band. In Britain and Ireland, it is often seen in gardens, parks and farmland.

• Blue-mantled Thornbill Chalcostigma stanleyi

  This hummingbird occurs in the high Andes of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It uses humid scrub, Polylepis woodland and open areas with short grass.

• Lesser Grass Finch Emberizoides ypiranganus

  This small tanager is associated with grassy wetlands and sedge marshes in South America. The account describes it as sedentary.

• Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris

  The Red-billed Scythebill is a forest bird with a very long, down-curved bill and fine streaks on the face and breast.

• Rufous-browed Tyrannulet Phylloscartes superciliaris

  This small flycatcher uses the canopy of humid montane forest. A Peru Aves account for northeastern Peru describes a gray head, a fine rufous eyebrow, and pale cheeks.

• Silverbird Empidornis semipartitus

  This flycatcher lives in eastern African grassland and semi-arid bushland. It drops from a perch to catch insects on the ground.

• Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri

  The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.

• Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani

  The Short-tailed Emerald is recorded in Colombia's Andes. A regional bird account lists montane forest, edges, and clearings, while Gould's historical description notes its short tail.

• Woodpecker Finch Camarhynchus pallidus

  The sexes look alike, with brown-toned plumage. In the dry season it may use a twig or cactus spine as a tool to pull larvae from holes in wood.

• Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus cervinigularis

  It occurs along the Caribbean slope from southern Mexico to north-western Panama. A study in Costa Rica found six nests in earth banks beside forest trails; each nest was at the end of a tunnel with a stick platform inside.

• Wing-barred Piprites Piprites chloris

  A small forest bird of South America. It has a pale eye-ring and yellow forehead and throat, and searches for insects and some fruit in the upper middle levels and canopy.

• Rufous-throated Flycatcher Ficedula rufigula

  This small flycatcher is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It searches the lower forest growth for small invertebrates.

• New Zealand Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

  The New Zealand Pigeon is a large pigeon endemic to New Zealand. Its green and bronze iridescent body contrasts with a white breast; it mainly eats fruit, with leaves and buds in some seasons.

• White-eared Hummingbird Basilinna leucotis

  This hummingbird lives in mountain forests from Nicaragua to northern Mexico. It has a white ear-stripe on a dark head; in bright light, an adult male's face appears violet and its throat gleams green.

• Ibera Seedeater Sporophila iberaensis

  A tanager described from Corrientes in northeastern Argentina. Seasonal records also occur in Paraguay and Brazil, but a 2021 study identified the Iberá Wetlands as its only known breeding area.

• White-chinned Thistletail Asthenes fuliginosa

  The White-chinned Thistletail occurs in the Andes. A Bogotá bird guide describes it foraging among foliage and branches, alone or in pairs.

• Lesser Antillean Flycatcher Myiarchus oberi

  A flycatcher recorded on Dominica. The account describes it at forest edges and fruit plantations, where it catches insects by darting from a perch.

• Red-tailed Wheatear Oenanthe chrysopygia

  The Red-tailed Wheatear lives in dry rocky places and scrub. The male is notable for its black face and reddish rump and tail.

• Socorro Dove Zenaida graysoni

  This dove is extinct in the wild but survives under expert care. Its last wild record was in 1972; a return to Socorro Island is planned after invasive species are removed.

• Red-tailed Comet Sappho sparganurus

  This hummingbird occurs in the Andes from near Peru and Bolivia south to central Argentina. It uses dry open habitats up to and above the treeline.