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• Plain Seedeater Catamenia inornata

  

  This finch relative forages in dry to semi-humid montane scrub and other open habitats in the Andes. Males are grey; females are browner, and their bill colors differ.

• Red-billed Emerald Chlorostilbon gibsoni

  This small hummingbird occurs in dry woodland and scrub in Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is emerald green with a red lower bill.

• Orange-fronted Plushcrown Metopothrix aurantiaca

  This small bird has greenish-olive upperparts, a yellow throat, and orange legs. In Amazonian riverine forest, it searches foliage for food in pairs or small groups.

• Planalto Tyrannulet Phyllomyias fasciatus

  This small bird has gray to olive-brown upperparts and a pale eye-ring. It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, feeding on insects and small fruits in the canopy of humid lowland forest.

• Bluish Flowerpiercer Diglossa caerulescens

  This flowerpiercer ranges through the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It uses humid montane forest and high-elevation scrub and grassland.

• 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.

• Light-crowned Spinetail Cranioleuca albiceps

  This ovenbird-family species occurs in humid montane forest in southeastern Peru and Bolivia. Its pale crown and dark eyebrow are distinctive.

• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris

  The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is marked by yellowish underparts and a bold eye ring. It catches flying insects in the lower parts of forests.

• Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana

  A tanager found from Amazonian lowlands into foothills. Males are blue and black; females are green with blue on the head.

• 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.

• Hudson's Canastero Asthenes hudsoni

  This canastero is concentrated in the humid Pampas and has black streaking on its back. A research review describes partial seasonal movement; Brazilian records include tall grass and sedges on a coastal plain.

• Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi

  This large, sturdy flycatcher has gray markings on its sides. It sings from high trees and catches flying insects.

• Yellow-faced Grassquit Tiaris olivaceus

  This small grassquit is widespread around the Caribbean. Males have a black face and chest with a yellow eyebrow and throat, while females are dull olive. It feeds on seeds in grassy and weedy open places.

• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird Amazilia tzacatl

  The Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is known for the male's glittering green throat and coppery tail. It feeds on nectar as well as small insects and spiders.

• Scalloped Woodcreeper Lepidocolaptes falcinellus

  This woodcreeper searches along tree trunks in humid forest. It has a rufous back, pale eyebrow, and finely scalloped belly. It is associated with the Atlantic Forest, where one observed pair took turns incubating its eggs.

• Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola capistratus

  The Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant is a ground-dwelling flycatcher that spends the summer in northwestern Patagonia and uses Andean foothills and steppe wetlands.

• Black-and-yellow Tanager Chrysothlypis chrysomelas

  Males have yellow heads and underparts with black backs and wings. Females are olive above and yellow below; both use the canopy of wet forests to search for fruit and arthropods.

• Rufous-crested Coquette Lophornis delattrei

  The Rufous-crested Coquette is a tiny hummingbird of humid forest edges and nearby clearings in Central and South America. Males have a long rufous crest that females lack.

• Band-tailed Earthcreeper Ochetorhynchus phoenicurus

  The Band-tailed Earthcreeper is a ground-dwelling bird of arid shrub steppe. It walks through low vegetation with its tail raised and sometimes makes short flights between shrubs.

• Rufous Flycatcher Myiarchus semirufus

  This flycatcher is restricted to dry habitats in northwestern Peru. Peru Aves labels its adult photographs sex unknown; the birds are mostly rufous with a gray-brown head and mantle and a black bill.

• Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca

  It has a gray body with a blue cast and blue-green tail and wing tips. It uses trees in open areas, parks, and cities and eats fruit, buds, nectar, and flying insects.

• 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.

• Spectacled Prickletail Siptornis striaticollis

  The Spectacled Prickletail occurs on the eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It searches for food in the middle and lower canopy of humid montane forest.

• White-bearded Flycatcher Phelpsia inornata

  This flycatcher appears in records from Venezuela. A female described in a 1937 field record had a deep-yellow underside and was noted at small groves and near lagoons. The paper uses an earlier taxonomic name.