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• Hispaniolan Emerald Riccordia swainsonii

  

  The Hispaniolan Emerald is a small hummingbird of forests and scrub on Hispaniola. It feeds on flower nectar and also takes fruit. Older accounts may use the former genus Chlorostilbon; this entry keeps the candidate pool's scientific name.

• Ringed Warbling Finch Microspingus torquatus

  This small bird lives in dry Andean scrub and open woodland. Females are duller overall and have a narrower, paler breast band.

• 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.

• Black-billed Flycatcher Aphanotriccus audax

  This small flycatcher occurs locally from eastern Panama to northern Colombia. The male has an olive-grey crown.

• Sapphire Flycatcher Ficedula sapphira

  Breeding males draw attention with a vivid blue back and white belly. Females are mainly brown, and nonbreeding or young males look more like females.

• Needle-billed Hermit Phaethornis philippii

  The Needle-billed Hermit uses lowland rainforest understory and takes nectar and small arthropods. It has a long straight bill and elongated central tail feathers tipped with white.

• Dark-throated Seedeater Sporophila ruficollis

  The Dark-throated Seedeater is a small bird of open South American landscapes. The male has a gray back, black throat and upper breast, and rufous rump and underparts; the female is olive-brown. Rare records from southeastern Peru are described as visits by migrants.

• Black-billed Treehunter Thripadectes melanorhynchus

  The Black-billed Treehunter lives in humid Andean montane and secondary forests. It searches for arthropods in dense undergrowth.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Thyolo Alethe Pseudalethe choloensis

  This forest bird occurs around the Thyolo Highlands of southern Malawi. It has rusty upperparts and searches among leaf litter for small arthropods.

• 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.

• Cinereous Warbling Finch Microspingus cinereus

  The Cinereous Warbling Finch is a small bird of Brazil's central Cerrado. Its distribution is sparse and local, and field knowledge remains limited according to the species account.

• Berlepsch’s Canastero Asthenes berlepschi

  This small bird is restricted to the Sorata area of Bolivia. It occurs in Polylepis woodland, where it searches foliage for arthropods; territorial pairs care for young.

• River Tyrannulet Serpophaga hypoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives along rivers in the Amazon basin. It has a gray back and pale underparts, and catches flying insects over young river-edge vegetation.

• Racket-tipped Thorntail Discosura longicaudus

  This small hummingbird lives in northern South America. The male’s outer tail feathers are greatly elongated and end in racket-shaped tips.

• White-winged Shrike-Tanager Lanio versicolor

  In Peru, the White-winged Shrike-Tanager is reported south of the Amazon and lower Marañón rivers. Males have black heads, wings, and tails with a broad white wing patch; the rest of the body is yellow. Females are mostly olive-brown with a yellowish center to the belly.

• Grey-headed Spinetail Cranioleuca semicinerea

  This spinetail occurs in eastern Brazil. Its gray head and upperparts contrast with conspicuous rufous wings and tail.

• Stub-tailed Spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus

  The Stub-tailed Spadebill is a small bird whose nest was observed in dry lowland forest in Costa Rica. At that nest, adults carried spiders and insects to the chicks.

• Santa Marta Woodstar Chaetocercus astreans

  This small hummingbird is found in Colombia's Santa Marta Mountains. Males have a green head, dark bluish upperparts, reddish gorget, and long deeply forked tail; females have buff underparts and a shorter rounded tail.

• Patagonian Yellow Finch Sicalis lebruni

  This finch occurs in Patagonia in Argentina and Chile. A Tierra del Fuego field guide describes its seasonal flocking and feeding in open country.

• Streak-fronted Thornbird Phacellodomus striaticeps

  About 16 cm long, it has a chestnut forehead and crown, brown back and tail, and gray-ochre underparts. It lives in ravines and shrub steppe in northwestern Argentina.

• Red-rumped Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus erythropygius

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the high Andes. Gray head, back, and breast contrast with whitish markings on the forehead, throat, and sides of the face, plus rufous belly, rump, and tail. The account describes foraging in humid scrub, highland grassland shrubs, and Polylepis woodland, with perches on bushes and trees.

• Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata

  This hummingbird is recorded in Argentina's humid scrub and forests. The local account describes a fork-tailed, vivid male and a greener-backed, gray-bellied female.

• Thick-billed Seed Finch Sporophila funerea

  This small finch has a heavy bill. The Peru species account records it in riverside grass and overgrown fallow fields; a specialist account describes it as feeding on seeds.