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• Handsome Flycatcher Nephelomyias pulcher

  

  It lives in humid montane forest on the eastern Andes and forages in the midstory. The source describes two separated populations at the northern and southern ends of the range.

• Large Blue-flycatcher Cyornis magnirostris

  The Large Blue-flycatcher breeds in eastern Himalayan foothill forests and winters in lowlands of the Thai-Malay Peninsula. The sexes have different plumage.

• Lesser Hornero Furnarius minor

  This small ovenbird is common along Amazonian rivers. It searches for food on the ground in open places created by rivers and similar early-growth habitats made by people.

• Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris

  The Long-billed Starthroat is marked by a long, straight bill and white markings on the cheek and tail tips. The Bolivian account describes it searching vegetation at different heights and darting after flying insects.

• Blue-winged Mountain Tanager Anisognathus somptuosus

  A tanager of Andean cloud forests, marked by a yellow crown and underparts and blue edging on the wings. It ranges from Colombia to Bolivia and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Nuku Hiva Imperial Pigeon Ducula galeata

  At about 55 cm, it is a very large arboreal pigeon with dark slate-grey plumage and a bronze-green sheen above. It lives in the upper forest and feeds mainly on fruit.

• Loggerhead Kingbird Tyrannus caudifasciatus

  The Loggerhead Kingbird is a big-headed flycatcher widespread in the Caribbean. It occasionally wanders to Florida in North America.

• Rufous-bellied Niltava Niltava sundara

  The male Rufous-bellied Niltava has a blue crown, face, throat, and back with sandy-brown underparts. It lives in forest bushes and undergrowth and feeds on small invertebrates.

• Striated Softtail Thripophaga macroura

  This bird is locally distributed in eastern Brazil. Its upperparts are rufous-brown with pale streaks, and its tail is cinnamon-colored. At Sooretama, pairs and small family groups were recorded foraging in the lower forest among dense vine tangles.

• Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae

  This small hummingbird is endemic to Peru. It is recorded on the eastern Andean slopes in humid montane forest and scrub at 2,800–3,550 m.

• Rufous-chested Tanager Thlypopsis ornata

  This small tanager occurs in Andean scrub and along humid-forest edges in Peru and Ecuador.

• Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus obscurior

  This small flycatcher is widespread in Amazonia. Its head, back and breast are grey, its belly yellowish, and it forages in secondary forest and scrub.

• Angola Slaty Flycatcher Dioptrornis brunneus

  This uncommon, poorly known flycatcher is endemic to Angola. The candidate name Dioptrornis brunneus is an older generic combination; current accounts use Melaenornis brunneus.

• Canebrake Groundcreeper Clibanornis dendrocolaptoides

  The Canebrake Groundcreeper lives in the southern Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and Misiones in Argentina. A 2025 Argentine review reports that it tunnels into vertical banks near springs or streams and that most recent Argentine records cluster in central-eastern Misiones.

• Rufous-throated Sapphire Hylocharis sapphirina

  This small hummingbird ranges across South America, including Bolivia. Its rufous throat and blue gorget help identify it.

• Yellow-scarfed Tanager Iridosornis reinhardti

  The Yellow-scarfed Tanager occurs in Peru's eastern Andes. It has a blue body, black head and golden band across the sides of the head, and forages in humid montane scrub and elfin forest.

• Dusky-tailed Flatbill Ramphotrigon fuscicauda

  This 15–17 cm flycatcher uses forest bamboo thickets and feeds on invertebrates. Sound recordings include sites in Peru’s Manu region.

• Great Shortwing Heinrichia calligyna

  This flycatcher relative lives in montane forest on Sulawesi and uses dense growth near the forest floor. By day, it searches leaf litter and undergrowth for small prey.

• Rusty-headed Spinetail Synallaxis fuscorufa

  This ovenbird is restricted to Colombia's Santa Marta mountains. It searches among branches in montane forest understory and scrub.

• Green-fronted Lancebill Doryfera ludovicae

  A hummingbird of Andean forest near rushing streams. It uses a very long, slender bill and flies low and quickly among flowers for nectar.

• 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.

• Fork-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus savana

  The Fork-tailed Flycatcher is conspicuous for the adult male's long, deeply forked tail. It catches flying insects over open ground.

• Javan Whistling Thrush Myophonus glaucinus

  Myophonus glaucinus is now called the Javan Whistling Thrush. A 2004 species-limits study describes glossy dark blue on the male’s head and upperparts, and reports birds mostly on the ground and ridges at Gunung Gede, Java.

• 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.