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• Bamboo Flatbill Ramphotrigon megacephalum

  

  The Bamboo Flatbill occurs in the Amazon region and forages often in Guadua bamboo stands in floodplain forest.

• Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii

  This roughly 12 cm hummingbird lives on the western slope of the northern Andes. Green upperparts, gray underparts, and dark throat and upper-breast speckles help identify it.

• 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.

• Rusty-backed Spinetail Cranioleuca vulpina

  The Rusty-backed Spinetail is a furnariid associated with Amazonian waterside woodland. Its rufous back, tail, and crown contrast with a pale eyebrow. PeruAves describes it feeding in pairs or small groups in flooded-forest understory and overhanging vegetation beside lakes or slow streams.

• Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus

  The Tropical Kingbird has a long, forked tail. It perches in open woodland or near water and catches insects.

• Humboldt's Sapphire Chrysuronia humboldtii

  This hummingbird is recorded along Colombia's Pacific coast. In a 19th-century account the male has a blue head and throat, while the female has a coppery back. It feeds on nectar and visits flowering mangroves.

• Saffron-crowned Tanager Tangara xanthocephala

  This tanager is marked by an orange-yellow crown and a black facial pattern. In humid forests on the eastern Andes, it searches moss and the undersides of small branches for arthropods.

• Rusty-winged Barbtail Premnornis guttuliger

  An Andean forest bird that searches among foliage in the lower and middle forest layers.

• Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus

  A flycatcher of lowland forests in Central and South America that eats fruit and insects.

• Black-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia victoriae

  The Black-tailed Trainbearer is a hummingbird of the Andes from Colombia to Peru. Males have long tails and search for nectar.

• Great Inca Finch Incaspiza pulchra

  This finch is endemic to Peru and lives in dry scrub on the western Andes. A 2016-2017 study also recorded it at lower elevations in a coastal hill reserve in La Libertad.

• Short-billed Leaftosser Sclerurus rufigularis

  Short-billed Leaftosser is a small leaftosser about 15–16 cm long. It uses humid forest understory and secondary growth, and searches on the ground for invertebrates. Oiseaux.net lists sound records from Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and French Guiana.

• Dusky-capped Flycatcher Myiarchus tuberculifer

  The Dusky-capped Flycatcher has a gray chest, yellow belly, and rusty highlights in the wings. It forages within tree foliage for insects.

• Golden-tailed Sapphire Chrysuronia oenone

  This hummingbird is about 9.5–10 cm long. Males have a blue head. It feeds on flower nectar and is found at forest edges and in secondary vegetation.

• Fulvous-crested Tanager Tachyphonus surinamus

  This tanager lives in forests of northern Amazonia. The male is black with a fulvous crest, while the female has an olive back and gray head.

• Elegant Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus elegans

  This roughly 21 cm woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands into foothill forest on the eastern Andes. The size and spread of its back spots vary among subspecies.

• Jamaican Elaenia Myiopagis cotta

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

• White-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus guainumbi

  The White-tailed Goldenthroat has metallic green upperparts and a white-tipped tail. In eastern Colombia it uses savannas, grasslands, and forest edges, feeding on nectar and sometimes hovering at flowers.

• Paramo Seedeater Catamenia homochroa

  The Paramo Seedeater occurs in the Andes and on tepuis in southern Venezuela. It searches near the ground in humid scrub near the tree line, often among Chusquea bamboo.

• Black-tailed Leaftosser Sclerurus caudacutus

  This ovenbird ranges across northern South America and the Amazon region. It has a reddish-brown face and dark brown crown and lives in tropical lowland evergreen forest. It digs a tunnel into an earth bank and builds its nest cup at the far end.

• Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura napensis

  This small tyrant-flycatcher often holds up its long, white-tipped tail. Along Peru’s Amazon, Ucayali and other rivers, it forages in young vegetation growing on river-created sites.

• Garnet-throated Hummingbird Lamprolaima rhami

  The Garnet-throated Hummingbird has a bright pink throat and violet chest in adult males; females have dark grey underparts. It inhabits highland forests from Mexico to Honduras.

• Genovesa Cactus Finch Geospiza propinqua

  The Genovesa Cactus Finch is restricted to Genovesa Island in the Galápagos. Its long, narrow bill is compressed from side to side, and the bird uses dry lowland scrub where prickly-pear cactus grows.

• Puna Thistletail Asthenes helleri

  This ovenbird occurs in humid scrub and forest edges near treeline in southeastern Peru and is also recorded in Bolivia.