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• Yucatan Flycatcher Myiarchus yucatanensis

  

  This flycatcher inhabits thorn forest and woodland on the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican field guide notes its dull wing markings and calls as identification features.

• Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea

  The Ferruginous Flycatcher has a gray head, orange-brown body, and pale ring around the eye. It perches at mid-height in montane forest openings, often near running water, and sallies out to catch insects.

• Patagonian Canastero Pseudasthenes patagonica

  Patagonian Canastero inhabits dry steppe and shrubland in the southern half of Argentina. It is mostly grayish brown, with a whitish, black-speckled throat and a mainly black tail edged with rufous. It feeds in scrub and may hold its tail upright when on the ground.

• Buff-winged Starfrontlet Coeligena lutetiae

  The Buff-winged Starfrontlet is a 14 cm hummingbird. It feeds mainly on nectar in humid Andean forest and along forest edges.

• Many-colored Chaco Finch Saltatricula multicolor

  This finch is recorded in Argentina’s low woods and grasslands. Adult males have a striking gray, orange, and white pattern, and the birds may hide among dense plants.

• Rose-crowned Fruit Dove Ptilinopus regina

  The Rose-crowned Fruit Dove has a pink crown and green back and feeds on fruit. It swallows fruit whole in the canopy, where it may be detected by its call or by fruit dropping below.

• Smoke-colored Pewee Contopus fumigatus

  This flycatcher is common in Peru's Andean montane forests. At forest edges and in semi-open places, it searches for food from exposed branch tips.

• Spotted Palm Thrush Cichladusa guttata

  About the size of a House Sparrow, it searches for food in leaf litter and thickets by day. It eats insects and plant parts and builds its nest in palm trees.

• Vilcabamba Spinetail Cranioleuca weskei

  The Vilcabamba Spinetail occurs in south-central Peru. Its 1984 description treated it as Cranioleuca marcapatae weskei; the 2025 Clements checklist recognizes it as a separate species.

• Rufous Sabrewing Pampa rufa

  A large hummingbird of the Pacific slope from southern Mexico to El Salvador. It is green above and rufous below and on the tail, and is recorded in forests and coffee plantations.

• 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.

• Sao Tome Green Pigeon Treron sanctithomae

  The Sao Tome Green Pigeon is restricted to Sao Tome Island in the Gulf of Guinea. It feeds on fruit high in forest canopies and also uses forest-edge plantations.

• 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.

• Dark-sided Flycatcher Muscicapa sibirica

  The Dark-sided Flycatcher breeds in northern Asia and winters in southern China and Southeast Asia.

• Scribble-tailed Canastero Asthenes maculicauda

  It forages in high-elevation mosaics of damp scrub and grassland. Regional accounts document local Andean records in Peru and Argentina.

• Collared Inca Coeligena torquata

  This hummingbird inhabits humid Andean forests. A white chest band stands out against its dark plumage, and it feeds on nectar as well as small insects and spiders.

• Dull-colored Grassquit Asemospiza obscura

  This small tanager occurs around the Andes. It has plain gray-brown plumage and a dark bill with a yellow-orange lower mandible.

• Azuero Dove Leptotila battyi

  This Panamanian dove is notable for the chestnut back and pale pink breast of the adult male. Its island and mainland populations belong to different subspecies.

• White-browed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albilora

  The White-browed Ground-tyrant visits the high Andes seasonally and searches for food on the ground. Peruvian records are from April to October.

• Black Wheatear Oenanthe leucura

  The male is black with a white rump and tail, while the female is browner.

• Uniform Woodcreeper Hylexetastes uniformis

  This woodcreeper occurs in south-central Amazonian forest in Brazil and northern Bolivia. Its species account describes a brown body, dark red bill, and redder wings and tail.

• Violet-headed Hummingbird Klais guimeti

  The Violet-headed Hummingbird is a small hummingbird found locally in humid foothill and lower Yungas forests in Bolivia. Males have violet-blue on the forehead and throat.

• Tawny-bellied Seedeater Sporophila hypoxantha

  A small seedeater of southern South American grasslands. It takes grass seeds and places its nest in low shrubs during the breeding season.

• Andaman Green Pigeon Treron chloropterus

  The Andaman Green Pigeon is a green pigeon whose male has a maroon back. It forages in the canopy at fruiting trees.