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• Mountain Velvetbreast Lafresnaya lafresnayi

  

  This hummingbird is recorded around Cuenca, Ecuador. It occurs in montane scrub, riverside vegetation, and forest edges, where its curved bill helps it feed on flower nectar.

• Spot-throated Woodcreeper Certhiasomus stictolaemus

  This woodcreeper forages low in humid Amazonian forest. Its head and body are olive brown, its wings and tail chestnut-rufous, and pale spots mark the throat and breast.

• Rufous-tailed Flatbill Ramphotrigon ruficauda

  This flycatcher uses the lower levels of South American forests. It has a reddish-brown body and rusty tail; a Brazilian breeding record describes a nest in a cavity in a standing dead trunk.

• Ibera Seedeater Sporophila iberaensis

  A tanager described from Corrientes in northeastern Argentina. Seasonal records also occur in Paraguay and Brazil, but a 2021 study identified the Iberá Wetlands as its only known breeding area.

• Rufous Sabrewing Pampa rufa

  A large hummingbird of the Pacific slope from southern Mexico to El Salvador. It is green above and rufous below and on the tail, and is recorded in forests and coffee plantations.

• Chestnut-backed Thornbird Phacellodomus dorsalis

  This ovenbird occurs in the Marañón drainage of northern Peru. It has a chestnut back and tail with a white throat, and pairs forage in scrub and sparse dry woodland.

• Flammulated Flycatcher Ramphotrigon flammulatum

  This flycatcher lives in brush and thorn forest from lowlands into foothills of western Mexico. It can be hard to notice while quiet; a 2013 recording from Jalisco captured a male singing from a tree along a trail.

• Silver-throated Tanager Tangara icterocephala

  This yellow tanager has a silvery-white throat. In Costa Rica, it uses humid mountain forest and forest edges.

• Ruby Topaz Chrysolampis mosquitus

  The Ruby-topaz Hummingbird feeds on flower nectar, along with small insects and spiders. Males have a red crown and shining golden throat; females are bronze-green. Its range includes Caribbean islands and northern to central South America.

• Striated Softtail Thripophaga macroura

  This bird is locally distributed in eastern Brazil. Its upperparts are rufous-brown with pale streaks, and its tail is cinnamon-colored. At Sooretama, pairs and small family groups were recorded foraging in the lower forest among dense vine tangles.

• White-ringed Flycatcher Conopias albovittatus

  This flycatcher occurs in lowland forests from Central America to the northern western slope of the Andes. Its white eyebrow lines meet behind the head, and its throat is white.

• Silver-beaked Tanager Ramphocelus carbo

  The Silver-beaked Tanager is a South American bird whose lower bill can look silvery. Males are dark red, while females are browner.

• White-throated Hummingbird Leucochloris albicollis

  The White-throated Hummingbird is recognized by its moss-green body and white throat and belly. The sources include records from Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina.

• Plain Softtail Thripophaga fusciceps

  This ovenbird occurs in river-edge and floodplain forests in Bolivia. Accounts describe a long tail and a reddish iris.

• Brownish Elaenia Elaenia pelzelni

  This flycatcher is restricted to riverine habitats in the Amazon basin, especially islands and forest edges along the Amazon and Napo rivers. It is often associated with early growth that includes Cecropia trees.

• Metallic-green Tanager Tangara labradorides

  This small, iridescent green tanager is recorded in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It uses montane forest canopy and second growth and may join mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• Plain-winged Woodcreeper Dendrocincla turdina

  This woodcreeper has olive-brown upperparts and a reddish-brown tail. In forests of eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina, researchers also recorded it foraging with groups of monkeys.

• Wing-barred Piprites Piprites chloris

  A small forest bird of South America. It has a pale eye-ring and yellow forehead and throat, and searches for insects and some fruit in the upper middle levels and canopy.

• Uniform Finch Haplospiza unicolor

  This finch occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It inhabits moist Atlantic Forest with bamboo in the understory; males are gray and females are brown.

• Chestnut-breasted Coronet Boissonneaua matthewsii

  The Chestnut-breasted Coronet is a mountain hummingbird with a green head and back and chestnut underparts. It feeds from the forest understory into the canopy.

• Moustached Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes falcirostris

  This woodcreeper is associated with patches of dry forest on rich soils in north-eastern Brazil. Its plumage varies among the study's regional specimen series rather than having one uniform brown coloration.

• Greyish Mourner Rhytipterna simplex

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges across northern and central South America. It occurs in middle and upper levels of humid forest, feeds mainly on large insects, and also takes fruit.

• Carbon Finch Porphyrospiza carbonaria

  This finch lives in shrub-rich grassland and open country in Argentina. The current IOC combination is Rhopospina carbonaria.