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• 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.

• Sooty-fronted Spinetail Synallaxis frontalis

  It has a dark forehead and chestnut crest, wings, and tail. In Brazil it uses low scrub in the Cerrado and other semi-open habitats, moving by hops near the ground while searching for invertebrates.

• Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus uropygialis

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in northern Salta Province, Argentina. The national park database lists forest and montane-forest edges as its habitat.

• Black-backed Bush Tanager Urothraupis stolzmanni

  The Black-backed Bush Tanager has a black head, back, wings, and tail, with a broad white throat and white marks on grey underparts. A 1997 survey at Guandera in northeastern Ecuador recorded it in primary forest and páramo.

• Sooty Flycatcher Artomyias fuliginosa

  This small flycatcher inhabits lowland and foothill forest in West and Central Africa. Dark chocolate-brown plumage, long pointed wings, and high perches on dead trees are characteristic.

• Buffy Helmetcrest Oxypogon stuebelii

  The Buffy Helmetcrest is a hummingbird of the high Andes of central Colombia. Local accounts place it in páramo around Los Nevados, among areas with frailejón plants.

• Band-tailed Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus phoenicurus

  The Band-tailed Earthcreeper is a ground-dwelling bird of arid shrub steppe. It walks through low vegetation with its tail raised and sometimes makes short flights between shrubs.

• Plumbeous-crowned Tyrannulet Phyllomyias plumbeiceps

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the Andes from Colombia through Ecuador to southern Peru. It searches forest vegetation for small invertebrates.

• Black-cowled Saltator Saltator nigriceps

  This saltator ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It occurs in humid montane forest, forest edges, and scrub.

• White-crowned Forktail Enicurus leschenaulti

  This long-tailed thrush is marked in black and white and lives along forest streams. It searches near the water for small invertebrates.

• Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer

  The Blue-tufted Starthroat has a long, slightly curved black bill. Males have a violet-glittering throat and blue feathers on the sides of the neck and breast. It feeds mainly on nectar and also catches small insects in flight.

• Rufous-capped Spinetail Synallaxis ruficapilla

  The Rufous-capped Spinetail occurs in dense thickets and forest edges from eastern Brazil into neighboring countries. It hops on the ground and, when disturbed, flies to the nearest thicket.

• Strange-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus risora

  This tyrant flycatcher inhabits wet grasslands near marshes. The breeding male is conspicuous for its elongated tail and bare throat, which turns red; females are brown.

• Glaucous Tanager Thraupis glaucocolpa

  This blue tanager occurs from Colombia's Caribbean coast to northern Venezuela. It mainly eats fruit and is seen in pairs or small groups.

• Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna

  Anna's Hummingbird has iridescent green plumage and a rose-pink throat. Males climb high and dive during courtship.

• Orange-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus ferrugineigula

  This ovenbird is recorded from central-northern Uruguay to eastern Brazil. Adults have three central pairs of olive-brown tail feathers, and the reddish-chestnut chin grades into an olive-brown lower belly. A 2008 comparative study treated it as a distinct species from its close relative.

• Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus

  The male Vermilion Flycatcher has a bright red head and underparts. It perches low in open areas near water and catches flying insects.

• Plain Seedeater Catamenia inornata

  This finch relative forages in dry to semi-humid montane scrub and other open habitats in the Andes. Males are grey; females are browner, and their bill colors differ.

• 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.

• Ceara Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus atlanticus

  A Ceará state publication records the woodcreeper in humid mountain forest and says it climbs trunks to search bark for arthropods. It lists Ceará as well as the neighboring states of Paraíba and Pernambuco.

• Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii

  It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.

• Red-crested Cardinal Paroaria coronata

  This bird has a bright red crest and throat, gray back, and white underparts. It forages on the ground in semi-open places and farmland in South America and may flock outside the breeding season.

• Emerald-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis aline

  This hummingbird ranges from Colombia through southwestern Ecuador to eastern Peru. It is usually solitary in the lower levels of humid cloud forest.

• Rufous-necked Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla ruficollis

  This furnariid occurs on the western Andean slope from northwestern Peru into Ecuador. It has a rufous neck and tail and is found in dense understory with bamboo.