Meet the world’s animals.

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• Paradise Tanager Tangara chilensis

  

  The Paradise Tanager forages in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest in pairs or family groups, often joining mixed-species flocks. Its plumage combines green, black, blue, and a red or yellow-red rump.

• Yellow-crowned Elaenia Myiopagis flavivertex

  A small flycatcher of northern Amazonian lowlands. Peru Aves describes olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and fine yellow wing-bars.

• Azure-shouldered Tanager Thraupis cyanoptera

  This tanager lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It favors forested areas and may join other tanagers in the treetops.

• Sao Francisco Black Tyrant Knipolegus franciscanus

  The Sao Francisco Black Tyrant is recorded in Brazil's dry-forest region. A survey in central Minas Gerais found it most often in dry forest and along its edges.

• Slate-colored Seedeater Sporophila schistacea

  Males range from dark gray to gray-olive. The species occurs around humid forest edges and understory, and may move in search of seeding bamboo, though it is not an obligate bamboo specialist.

• White-crested Spadebill Platyrinchus platyrhynchos

  This small flycatcher feeds in the understory of Amazonian forest. It is widespread but considered rare in Peru.

• Masked Crimson Tanager Ramphocelus nigrogularis

  This tanager occurs in Colombia's lowlands and foothills. It has been recorded foraging for fruit and insects in trees.

• Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant Atalotriccus pilaris

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher inhabits dry lowlands from Central America into northern South America. Its pale eye and yellow wing-bars help identify it.

• Black-headed Hemispingus Pseudospingus verticalis

  This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slope north and west of the Marañón Valley. The species account also lists records from Colombia and Ecuador.

• Cinereous Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola cinereus

  This tyrant flycatcher visits the high Andes as an austral migrant. It has gray upperparts and whitish underparts, and is recorded at 4,000–4,700 m among rocky, shrubby grasslands.

• Chestnut-backed Tanager Stilpnia preciosa

  This tanager lives in forests and forest edges of southeastern South America, feeding on fruit and canopy insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Rufous Flycatcher Myiarchus semirufus

  This flycatcher is restricted to dry habitats in northwestern Peru. Peru Aves labels its adult photographs sex unknown; the birds are mostly rufous with a gray-brown head and mantle and a black bill.

• Black Flowerpiercer Diglossa humeralis

  This flowerpiercer inhabits the high Andes from Venezuela to Peru and has a distinctive upturned, hooked bill.

• Noronha Elaenia Elaenia ridleyana

  The Noronha Elaenia occurs on the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil. It uses scrub, woodland, thickets, and gardens and eats insects and small fruit.

• Green Warbler-Finch Certhidea olivacea

  The Green Warbler-Finch is endemic to the Galápagos and has the thinnest bill among Darwin's finches. It probes leaves and moss for small arthropods.

• Taczanowski's Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola griseus

  It occurs in the high Andes at 3,200–4,800 m; the same source also reports it from Bolivia and Chile.

• Slaty Finch Haplospiza rustica

  Male Slaty Finches are lead-gray with a long, pointed bill. The species occurs from Central to South America and feeds mainly on bamboo seeds at moist highland forest edges.

• Puerto Rican Flycatcher Myiarchus antillarum

  A flycatcher found in Puerto Rico that searches for prey from a perch.

• Ashy-headed Tyrannulet Tyranniscus cinereiceps

  The Ashy-headed Tyrannulet occurs in the Andes from Venezuela to Peru. It forages in middle and upper forest levels and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Chocolate-vented Tyrant Neoxolmis rufiventris

  This tyrant flycatcher breeds in Patagonian grasslands and moves to the Pampas for winter. It walks through open grass or scrub and searches for food on the ground.

• White Monjita Xolmis irupero

  The White Monjita is a South American tyrant flycatcher. A university species page describes the male as almost entirely white, with black eyes, wings, bill, and tail tip; it notes that females are greyer on the crown and back. The bird uses open grasslands and parks with scattered trees and often perches prominently.

• Juan Fernandez Tit-Tyrant Anairetes fernandezianus

  This species is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in Chile's Juan Fernández Islands. It usually stays in scrub along forest edges and feeds on insects.

• White-bellied Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis albiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. It forages in the midstory and subcanopy.

• American Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri

  The Dusky Flycatcher is a small bird of mountains and foothills in western North America. Its olive-gray back, bold eyering, and two wingbars stand out as it catches flying insects low in the vegetation.