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• Nutting's Flycatcher Myiarchus nuttingi

  

  This flycatcher inhabits dry woodland and scrub from Mexico to northwestern Central America. It resembles related Myiarchus flycatchers; the yellow on the belly helps distinguish it.

• Tawny-crested Tanager Tachyphonus delatrii

  Tawny-crested Tanagers may move in flocks through moist lowland and montane forest, usually at lower or middle levels. They can join mixed-species flocks.

• Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Chrysuronia coeruleogularis

  This hummingbird occurs in Panama and northern Colombia. Males are metallic green with a purplish-blue throat; females are green above and whitish below. It visits flowers in scrub, dry woodland, and mangroves.

• Tapajos Scythebill Campylorhamphus probatus

  A scythebill occurring in the lowland Amazon of Brazil. The appearance and foraging details here apply only to subspecies cardosoi under the current treatment.

• Juan Fernandez Tit-Tyrant Anairetes fernandezianus

  This species is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in Chile's Juan Fernández Islands. It usually stays in scrub along forest edges and feeds on insects.

• Black Seedeater Sporophila corvina

  Plumage varies across the species. Males of the nominate subspecies are almost black with a small white patch on the folded wing; females are buff.

• Eastern Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus

  The Eastern Long-tailed Hermit has a long, down-curved bill and long white-tipped tail feathers. It feeds at flowers beside tropical forest streams and also takes insects when flowers are scarce.

• Cinereous Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola cinereus

  This tyrant flycatcher visits the high Andes as an austral migrant. It has gray upperparts and whitish underparts, and is recorded at 4,000–4,700 m among rocky, shrubby grasslands.

• Yellow-bellied Seedeater Sporophila nigricollis

  The Yellow-bellied Seedeater is a small bird identified by the male's pale yellow belly and black head. It feeds on grass seeds in grassy and agricultural areas.

• Short-tailed Woodstar Myrmia micrura

  This small hummingbird lives at forest edges and in scrub in northwestern Peru. The male has a white-edged purple throat patch, and the sexes differ in tail details.

• White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus albifacies

  The White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird with a red crown and white cheeks. It lives in the Amazonian understory, especially in dense Guadua bamboo patches.

• Golden-collared Tanager Iridosornis jelskii

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A yellow band around the head and a dark facial mask stand out; it feeds on fruit and insects in the lower levels of humid montane forest.

• Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami

  This hummingbird is recorded in the highlands of the Sibundoy area of Colombia. Male and female throat and tail patterns differ, and males defend feeding areas.

• Stub-tailed Spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus

  The Stub-tailed Spadebill is a small bird whose nest was observed in dry lowland forest in Costa Rica. At that nest, adults carried spiders and insects to the chicks.

• Scarlet-browed Tanager Heterospingus xanthopygius

  This tanager occurs from Panama through Colombia to Ecuador. Males are mostly black with a white eyebrow and scarlet eyebrow tufts; the species uses humid lowland forest and its edges.

• Black-backed Thornbill Ramphomicron dorsale

  This hummingbird is recorded only in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It uses high mountain forest and páramo, feeding on nectar.

• Black-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes nigrocristatus

  This roughly 13 cm tyrant flycatcher lives at high elevations on the western Andean slope. Peru Aves associates it with Polylepis woodland and adjacent scrub at 2,100–4,000 m in Peru and also records it in Ecuador.

• Rufous-backed Inca Finch Incaspiza personata

  This finch is recorded in dry montane scrub on Peru's western Andean slope. It has a rufous back and bright orange bill and legs.

• White-bellied Mountain-gem Lampornis hemileucus

  This hummingbird lives in the mountains from Costa Rica to western Panama. Males have a purple throat; females have green throat spots.

• White-browed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca leucophrys

  This chat-tyrant lives in open woodland and scrub in the high Andes. It perches upright and makes short flights to catch arthropods.

• Opal-crowned Tanager Tangara callophrys

  This tanager forages in the canopy of mature Amazonian forests, often with mixed-species flocks. The Peru Aves account records it up to 1,000 m along the Andean foothills.

• Purple-bibbed Whitetip Urosticte benjamini

  The Purple-bibbed Whitetip was recorded visiting flowers during camera monitoring at Un poco del Chocó reserve in Pichincha Province, Ecuador. John Gould's historical account describes Ecuadorian males and females, while a 2006 taxonomic paper revisited confusion among related forms.

• Johannes's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus iohannis

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the forest understorey of Amazonia. It forages in dense foliage, forest edges, secondary growth, and along rivers and lakes; records reach about 800 m on the Andean foothills.

• Gray-hooded Bush Tanager Cnemoscopus rubrirostris

  A tanager of Andean montane forest from Colombia through Peru, with a grey hood, olive upperparts and yellow underparts.