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• Spot-billed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maculirostris

  

  This small tyrant flycatcher uses rocky slopes and lake margins in the high Andes. It searches for arthropods on the ground and also uses gravelly river edges during the Southern Hemisphere winter.

• Rufous-rumped Seedeater Sporophila hypochroma

  The Rufous-rumped Seedeater is a small bird whose male has a gray head and back with chestnut throat and underparts. In Argentina, it breeds in tall, humid grassland.

• Peruvian Sheartail Thaumastura cora

  This hummingbird is recorded from the Pacific side of Peru and Ecuador to northern Chile. It uses coastal scrub and vegetation along seasonal river valleys; adult males have very long tail feathers.

• Henna-capped Foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rectirostris

  It is recorded in gallery forest and riparian woodland in Brazil's Cerrado.

• Jamaican Elaenia Myiopagis cotta

  The Jamaican Elaenia is a small tyrant flycatcher of humid montane and foothill forests in Jamaica.

• Oleaginous Hemispingus Sphenopsis frontalis

  This tanager relative lives in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive head and back, yellowish underparts, and dense-foliage foraging are useful field marks.

• Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani

  The Sapphire-vented Puffleg is a hummingbird with white feathered leg puffs and a long, forked blue-purple tail. It lives in Andean cloud forest and may visit hummingbird feeders where they are available.

• Pearled Treerunner Margarornis squamiger

  This Andean bird has a yellowish-buff eyebrow, chestnut upperparts, and a cream throat. It uses upper subtropical and temperate forests and woodland and feeds mostly on arthropods.

• Brownish Twistwing Cnipodectes subbrunneus

  The Brownish Twistwing uses terra firme forest in the northern Bolivian Amazon, especially dense understory. It has shaggy plumage, a pale lower mandible, ochre edges on the wing feathers and a rufous-brown tail; it is usually solitary.

• Medium Ground Finch Geospiza fortis

  The Medium Ground Finch is endemic to the Galapagos and mainly eats seeds. On Santa Cruz, individuals vary in beak size.

• Plain-bellied Emerald Chrysuronia leucogaster

  This hummingbird has a white belly. It uses coastal mangroves and forest edges and feeds on nectar.

• Tawny-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus mexicanus

  The Tawny-throated Leaftosser lives in humid Central American forests, walking through leaf litter to find food. It has dark brown upperparts and a rusty throat extending onto the breast. It is seen alone or in pairs; local records describe a burrow nest near the ground.

• Jamaican Pewee Contopus pallidus

  This small woodland bird is endemic to Jamaica. It catches insects by flying out from exposed perches in the middle levels of the forest and may flick its tail once when it lands.

• Orangequit Euneornis campestris

  The Orangequit lives in Jamaican forests and wooded farmland. Males and females have different plumage.

• Buff-tailed Coronet Boissonneaua flavescens

  The Buff-tailed Coronet is a hummingbird of Andean montane forest. Buff or rufous edges on its tail feathers are distinctive, and it feeds on nectar and small prey.

• Stripe-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca pyrrhophia

  This ovenbird occurs in southern South America, where it searches for food on tree trunks and branches.

• Southern Antpipit Corythopis delalandi

  A small forest bird of central and southeastern South America, it searches for food on the ground and in the lower forest layers. A regional study documented its distribution and habitat in the Yungas of Bolivia and Argentina.

• 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.

• Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza

  This small hummingbird is endemic to Mexico. Its breeding range is split between the northern Yucatan Peninsula and central Veracruz, where records include coastal scrub and dry deciduous forest.

• 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.

• Spectacled Tyrant Hymenops perspicillatus

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in South American grasslands and wetlands. Males are black with yellow around the eyes and on the bill. Breeding has been studied in native tall grassland in the Argentine Pampas.

• Wedge-tailed Grass Finch Emberizoides herbicola

  This grassland bird has a wedge-shaped tail longer than half its body. It searches among grasses for insects and defends a territory as a breeding pair.

• Black-throated Hermit Phaethornis atrimentalis

  This hermit hummingbird lives in the forest understory of Amazonian areas and along humid forest edges in the Andean foothills. Its long, slightly curved bill and black throat stand out.

• Slender-billed Xenops Xenops tenuirostris

  This small ovenbird relative has a thin, straight bill and moves over trunks and branches. The Peru account places it in lowland Amazonian forest edges and secondary growth, with records to 500 m along the Andean foothills.