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• Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail Spartonoica maluroides

  

  The Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail lives in salt marshes of southeastern South America. In a measured sample, males tended to have a longer rufous cap and a more robust bill than females.

• Black-goggled Tanager Trichothraupis melanops

  This tanager uses humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Males have black markings through the eye and a bright yellow crown patch.

• Wedge-tailed Hillstar Oreotrochilus adela

  The Wedge-tailed Hillstar is notable for the male's glittering green throat and its visits to flowers in dry highlands. It lives in the Andes of Bolivia and adjacent Argentina.

• Black-fronted Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola frontalis

  This ground tyrant moves through the southern Andes. A wintering record from rocky terrain in central Peru has been reported.

• Red-faced Spinetail Cranioleuca erythrops

  This spinetail has a rufous face and long stepped tail; in Costa Rica it occurs in humid forest at middle elevations.

• White-throated Seedeater Sporophila albogularis

  This small bird is recorded in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. Males have small white patches near the eye, and the birds take grass seeds from the ground. Regional accounts describe shrubland near wet places and along dry-forest edges.

• Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango

  The Jamaican Mango is a hummingbird endemic to Jamaica that feeds on nectar. Iridescent colors fleck its mostly black body.

• White-tailed Tyrannulet Mecocerculus poecilocercus

  The White-tailed Tyrannulet searches for insects in the canopy of humid Andean forest. White inner webs of the tail feathers and pale wingbars help identify it.

• Black-banded Woodcreeper Dendrocolaptes picumnus

  A large woodcreeper that climbs tree trunks while foraging. The subspecies casaresi is recorded in forests of northwestern Argentina.

• Ringed Warbling Finch Microspingus torquatus

  This small bird lives in dry Andean scrub and open woodland. Females are duller overall and have a narrower, paler breast band.

• Mexican Woodnymph Eupherusa ridgwayi

  The Mexican Woodnymph is a hummingbird found locally in western Mexico. It feeds mainly at low levels in oak woodland and shaded coffee plantations.

• Ochraceous Attila Attila torridus

  It lives in forests of western Ecuador and adjacent Colombia and Peru. It catches large insects and spiders in the upper forest.

• White-bellied Cinclodes Cinclodes palliatus

  This ovenbird lives in the high Andes of Peru. It has reddish upperparts and a white belly, and walks on the ground to forage in high-elevation bogs.

• Blue-backed Conebill Conirostrum sitticolor

  A small Andean bird found in forest canopy and high native scrub. Its glossy blue back contrasts with a black head and chest and rufous underparts.

• White-vented Plumeleteer Chalybura buffonii

  The White-vented Plumeleteer is a hummingbird ranging from Central America into northwestern South America. A study in Colombia found a nest in dense understory beside a stream.

• Belted Flycatcher Xenotriccus callizonus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the highlands from Chiapas in southern Mexico through Guatemala to El Salvador. It uses scrubby woodland.

• Black-capped Foliage-gleaner Philydor atricapillus

  This furnariid is covered in a regional guide to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Its dark crown and rufous eyebrow stand out as it searches among foliage in the lower forest.

• Black-throated Flowerpiercer Diglossa brunneiventris

  This flowerpiercer lives in the high Andes. Disjunct populations occur in northern Colombia and farther south in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and their relationship has been studied.

• Blue-chinned Sapphire Chlorestes notata

  This hummingbird lives in Colombia’s humid lowlands and river-edge forest. Males show a blue-violet throat against glossy green plumage, and it feeds mainly at flowers.

• Variegated Flycatcher Empidonomus varius

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges widely across South America. It perches in forest canopy and along edges; southern breeding populations migrate seasonally.

• Spotted Barbtail Premnoplex brunnescens

  This small ovenbird lives in evergreen mountain forests from Central America into the Andes. Tawny spots on its breast and around the eye are useful identification marks.

• Band-tailed Seedeater Catamenia analis

  The Band-tailed Seedeater is a small bird whose male has blue-gray plumage and a white tail band. It feeds in dry montane scrub and other open habitats.

• Snowcap Microchera albocoronata

  The male has a white crown and dark plumage with coppery reflections. Its outer tail feathers have white bases and dark terminal bands. This small hummingbird feeds on nectar near forest edges.

• Venezuelan Flycatcher Myiarchus venezuelensis

  A Myiarchus flycatcher found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has a gray-brown back and pale yellow underparts and is recorded in forests and at woodland edges.