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• White-lored Spinetail Synallaxis albilora

  

  Field notes report this bird in the Pantanal and adjoining areas, in undergrowth of dry and gallery forests, riverine shrubs and cultivated areas. It forages among tangles and vines. Photographs show an individual with a uniformly gray crown.

• Rufous-gaped Hillstar Urochroa bougueri

  It has a bronzy-green body, blue throat, and long straight bill. It inhabits forest on the western slope of the Andes and feeds on nectar.

• Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii

  It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.

• Red-cowled Cardinal Paroaria dominicana

  Common in northeastern Brazil, this tanager has a red head and throat, grey back, black wings and tail, and a white underside to the tail; immatures have a duller orange head.

• White-browed Tit-Spinetail Leptasthenura xenothorax

  This small bird lives in high-Andean Polylepis woodland in Peru. Its rufous head, long white eyebrow, and black-checkered white throat are distinctive.

• 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.

• Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens

  The Yellowish Flycatcher is marked by its yellowish belly and a pale eye-ring that broadens behind the eye. In Costa Rica, it uses the canopy and edges of moist mountain forest.

• Scarlet-thighed Dacnis Dacnis venusta

  This small bird occurs in forests from Central America to northwestern South America. Males are turquoise with scarlet thighs; females are duller green-blue, with pale underparts and no scarlet thigh patch.

• White-throated Treerunner Pygarrhichas albogularis

  It climbs trunks and branches while pecking at bark for food, mainly insects. In the Argentine SIB account for the Andean-Patagonian forests, it is more often seen in low valleys during winter.

• Short-crested Coquette Lophornis brachylophus

  This small hummingbird is restricted to a limited mountain area in Guerrero, southwestern Mexico. Adult males have an orange-rufous crest and green gorget; females lack those ornaments.

• Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus fumifrons

  A tiny, roughly 9 cm tyrant flycatcher. It forages inconspicuously in low bushes, and pendant pouch-like nests have been recorded in French Guiana.

• Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps

  This large finch-like tanager occurs from Mexico to Panama in lowlands and hills, using forest edges and open trees. Its black head and breast bib contrast with bright golden-green upperparts.

• Dark-breasted Spinetail Synallaxis albigularis

  This small bird lives in grassy scrub and forest edges in Amazonia and forages in young second growth. Its rufous crown and dark throat are useful field marks.

• Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris

  A hummingbird endemic to Colombia, with a bronze-red back, chestnut belly, and iridescent green throat. It takes nectar and may defend sites where flowers are abundant.

• Northern Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercus

  This 12–14 cm flycatcher is active by day in mountain forest and pine-oak woodland. It catches insects in the air by darting out from a perch. It does not migrate.

• Crimson-fronted Cardinal Paroaria baeri

  This cardinal occurs along Brazil's Araguaia River and tributaries. It forms small flocks along lake margins and slow-flowing rivers.

• 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.

• Bearded Mountaineer Oreonympha nobilis

  A 19th-century account by Gould records specimens from Peru's Cuzco region and flights between flowers with apparent aerial insect-catching. The male description has a blue crown and long green-and-purple throat ornament.

• Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus plumbeiceps

  This small bird ranges from the eastern Andes to southeastern South America. Its forehead and face are ochre-toned, and its wings have ochre bars. It searches dense cover for insects.

• Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola

  The Bay-headed Tanager has a chestnut head, green back, and blue-green rump and underparts. It eats fruit in forest canopies and edges and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Brown-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus pusillus

  This woodcreeper climbs tree trunks. The eBird account describes forest as its main setting, and a 2012 checklist records one individual in Ecuador.

• 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.

• Black-capped Piprites Piprites pileata

  This small bird inhabits highland Atlantic Forest from Brazil to Argentina. The male has a black cap and nape with warm-toned upperparts; the female is duller.

• Purple Honeycreeper Cyanerpes caeruleus

  Male Purple Honeycreepers are blue to purple with bright yellow legs, while females have greenish and brown streaked plumage. They feed on nectar, fruits, and insects, often in the canopy.