Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gray-crested Finch Lophospingus griseocristatus

  

  The Gray-crested Finch searches the ground in pairs or loose groups and uses dry scrub. Juveniles are browner overall, with buffy-white eyebrows and throats.

• Pine Flycatcher Empidonax affinis

  This small flycatcher lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Guatemala. Its olive-grey body has a conspicuous eye ring.

• Costa's Hummingbird Calypte costae

  Costa's Hummingbird breeds in dry shrublands of the southwestern United States and nearby Mexico. Adult males show violet on the head and throat, while females are more subdued green-gray.

• Barbados Bullfinch Loxigilla barbadensis

  This seed-eating bird is endemic to Barbados, where it is found in grassy areas and forests.

• Brownish Elaenia Elaenia pelzelni

  This flycatcher is restricted to riverine habitats in the Amazon basin, especially islands and forest edges along the Amazon and Napo rivers. It is often associated with early growth that includes Cecropia trees.

• Violet-capped Woodnymph Thalurania glaucopis

  The male has a violet-blue crown and green body. Nests have been documented in forests of southeastern Brazil.

• Fulvous Shrike-Tanager Lanio fulvus

  A tanager of humid lowland forests in northern Amazonia. It acts as a sentinel near the center of mixed-species flocks and catches insects flushed by other birds.

• Cinnamon Neopipo Neopipo cinnamomea

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid Andean foothill forest and stunted forest on white sand in the Peruvian Amazon. It is usually solitary in the understory and moves slowly.

• Brown Violet-ear Colibri delphinae

  This hummingbird has a brown body and iridescent blue-violet feathers near the ears. Trinidad holds an isolated population within the species' wider range.

• Emerald Tanager Tangara florida

  The Emerald Tanager searches for fruit in the canopy of humid montane forest and also finds small invertebrates in moss on branches.

• Amazonian Elaenia Myiopagis cinerea

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in humid lowland forest across the Amazon Basin. Males are blue-gray above, while females have a brighter green back.

• Neblina Metaltail Metallura odomae

  This small hummingbird occurs in the highlands of northern Peru and southern Ecuador.

• 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.

• Pale-bellied Mourner Rhytipterna immunda

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs in the Amazon region. A 2005 survey in Bolivia found it in the canopy of low-stature forest and in semi-open scrub with scattered trees.

• Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingii

  This hummingbird lives in Andean mountain forest. Males flash a very long blue-green tail and look markedly different from females.

• Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater Sporophila torqueola

  The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater inhabits western Mexico’s grassy areas; males show a white collar above a dark breast band.

• Mountain Elaenia Elaenia frantzii

  A highland flycatcher found from Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and forages at forest edges and fruiting bushes.

• Green-fronted Hummingbird Leucolia viridifrons

  This hummingbird lives in dry woodland and scrub in Mexico. It has a green forehead and a red bill with a black tip.

• Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak Parkerthraustes humeralis

  It ranges from eastern Colombia to northern Bolivia and the southwestern Brazilian Amazon. In moist lowland forest it forages mainly in the canopy and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges from Mexico through much of South America. It uses forest edges and open or cultivated places with tall trees, often staying high in the canopy.

• Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae

  The Bee Hummingbird is described as the world's smallest bird. Males have iridescent throat feathers, and the birds visit flowers for nectar in Cuba.

• Beryl-spangled Tanager Tangara nigroviridis

  This tanager has dark plumage covered in iridescent blue-green spots. It occurs in Andean cloud forest from Venezuela to Bolivia.

• Variegated Flycatcher Empidonomus varius

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges widely across South America. It perches in forest canopy and along edges; southern breeding populations migrate seasonally.

• Cozumel Emerald Cynanthus forficatus

  This hummingbird is restricted to Cozumel Island, Mexico. Males are emerald green with a deeply forked tail; females also have a forked tail and a dark facial mask.