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• Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner Automolus melanopezus

  

  The Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in lowland forests from Colombia to Bolivia. It forages in the understory of young floodplain forest; the Peru Aves account also associates it with Guadua bamboo in southeastern Peru.

• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes luteiventris

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges from Mexico to Bolivia. It occurs from dry scrub to rainforest and is more often reported in the canopy or at forest edges than deep inside extensive forest.

• White-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes cyanus

  This hummingbird uses humid forest and adjacent scrubby transitions. An Argentine biodiversity account describes distinct blue markings in males and females.

• Gray Warbler-Finch Certhidea fusca

  This small finch occurs in the dry and transition zones of the Galapagos. It searches foliage, epiphytes, and moss for arthropods.

• Black-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus falcularius

  Its dark body is set off by a long, slender, curved bill. It probes gaps in trees and plants and feeds mainly on small invertebrates.

• Smoky Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fumigatus

  This flycatcher inhabits Andean forests. It is dark brown with pale mottling on the throat; one nest on a dead stump was reported in Ecuador.

• Butterfly Coquette Lophornis verreauxii

  A small hummingbird of Amazonian forests. Males show a white rump band and ornamental feathers, while females have a pale facial stripe.

• Gray-headed Tanager Eucometis penicillata

  This tanager has a gray head and yellow-orange underparts. Peruvian accounts place it in the middle levels of floodplain forest.

• Pallid Spinetail Cranioleuca pallida

  This spinetail is endemic to Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Its reported range extends from Bahia to northeastern Paraná, and it moves in pairs in the canopy.

• Cinnamon Attila Attila cinnamomeus

  The Cinnamon Attila occurs in Amazonian floodplain forest, edges, and river islands, foraging in the canopy and subcanopy. In Peru, the account records it in Loreto and Ucayali and describes it as uncommon there.

• Fiery-throated Metaltail Metallura eupogon

  This hummingbird occurs on the eastern slope of the central Peruvian Andes. The male has an iridescent purple throat, and records come from humid mountain forest edges and nearby scrub.

• Thick-billed Saltator Saltator maxillosus

  It has a yellow bill base and a white eyebrow. The source account lists Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina; an Argentina study reports records in secondary and regenerating forests in Misiones Province.

• Pink-legged Graveteiro Acrobatornis fonsecai

  This bird occurs in humid Atlantic Forest in southeastern Bahia, Brazil. Researchers recorded it in the canopy of tall trees retained over cocoa plantations.

• White-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus stictopterus

  The White-banded Tyrannulet is a small bird of Andean forests. Its white eyebrow and two wing-bars stand out as it searches among leaves for small invertebrates.

• Talamanca Hummingbird Eugenes spectabilis

  It is recorded in high-elevation oak forest in Costa Rica. An older description says the male has a brilliant violet crown and a metallic green throat.

• Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum

  This tanager ranges widely through Central and South America. In Bolivia it occurs in forest and palm groves as well as cultivated land and urban parks.

• Chinchipe Spinetail Synallaxis chinchipensis

  This furnariid is known from the Río Chinchipe area of northwestern Peru. A 2020 specimen comparison supported treating it as a distinct species rather than a subspecies of a close relative.

• Southern Tropical Pewee Contopus cinereus

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a short bill. The prominence of its white wing bars and the colour of its throat and breast differ between subspecies.

• Black Metaltail Metallura phoebe

  A hummingbird of Peru's western Andes. Males have an iridescent blue-green throat patch that females lack.

• White-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio leucothorax

  This tanager inhabits humid lowland forests of Central America. Males are mostly yellow and black, females are brown with a pale throat, and the birds are often seen in pairs, families, or mixed-species flocks.

• Long-billed Woodcreeper Nasica longirostris

  A large woodcreeper of Amazonian floodplain forest, it is marked by a rufous back and a long, pale bill.

• Rufous-breasted Flycatcher Leptopogon rufipectus

  It has a slate-grey crown, a mottled rufous face and dark olive upperparts. The species occurs in the Andes; a study in western Napo, Ecuador, recorded birds searching for insects under leaves from perches in the forest's middle levels.

• Santa Marta Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps

  This hummingbird lives in the Santa Marta mountains. The male has a peach-toned crown and gray throat, and the bird takes nectar from small flowers low in the vegetation.

• Orange-fronted Yellow Finch Sicalis columbiana

  This small finch occurs in northern South America. Orinoco field notes describe small flocks along pond and stream edges. The recorded female had olive-brown upperparts and a paler belly.