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• Scaled Metaltail Metallura aeneocauda

  

  This small hummingbird lives in humid highland forest on the eastern Andes. Adult males and females differ in tail and throat color.

• Bright-rumped Yellow Finch Sicalis uropigyalis

  This finch occurs in high-Andean steppe and prepuna in northwestern Argentina. The male has a yellow head and underparts with a gray face.

• Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum

  This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Rusty-winged Barbtail Premnornis guttuliger

  An Andean forest bird that searches among foliage in the lower and middle forest layers.

• Purple-collared Woodstar Myrtis fanny

  This small hummingbird occurs in dry hill forest and scrub in Ecuador and Peru.

• Sooty Grassquit Asemospiza fuliginosa

  This small grassquit occurs in humid woodland and forest edges. It is recorded from several South American countries; in Bolivia, only one vagrant specimen from Amazonian forest in northern Santa Cruz is reported.

• Northern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe

  The Northern Beardless Tyrannulet is a tiny, grayish bird without bristles at the base of its bill. It hops among branches, flicks its tail, and gives whistled notes.

• Rio Orinoco Spinetail Synallaxis beverlyae

  The Rio Orinoco Spinetail is recorded along the Orinoco River in Venezuela and adjacent Colombia. It uses scrub on river islands and banks that are seasonally inundated.

• 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.

• Bolivian Warbling Finch Poospiza boliviana

  This finch occurs in the west-central Bolivian Andes. A research paper gives an elevational range of about 1,600–3,000 m and describes its plumage as gray, white, and rufous.

• Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs on Caribbean islands. It is found at forest edges and gardens and has dark olive-gray upperparts with a grayish-white underside washed yellow below.

• 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.

• Inagua Woodstar Nesophlox lyrura

  This hummingbird is restricted to Great and Little Inagua in the Bahamas. Males have an iridescent rose-purple forehead and throat and a deeply forked tail.

• Fulvous Shrike-Tanager Lanio fulvus

  A tanager of humid lowland forests in northern Amazonia. It acts as a sentinel near the center of mixed-species flocks and catches insects flushed by other birds.

• Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola rufivertex

  This ground-tyrant occurs in the Peruvian Andes. The Peru Aves account describes grayish upperparts, a whitish-gray underside, a white forehead, and a rusty patch on the nape; it forages in short dry grass and other dry habitats.

• Ecuadorian Piedtail Phlogophilus hemileucurus

  This hummingbird is recorded in montane forest in the northeastern Andes, where it is uncommon in the understory and shrubbery.

• Common Cactus Finch Geospiza scandens

  The Common Cactus Finch lives in the dry zone of the Galápagos and often uses prickly pear cactus for food. Its long, pointed bill helps it take food from the cactus.

• Yellow-throated Flycatcher Conopias parvus

  It occurs east of the Andes in South America. Its black crown, white eyebrow, and yellow throat and belly are distinctive; it uses the canopy and edges of humid forest.

• Empress Brilliant Heliodoxa imperatrix

  This large hummingbird occurs in humid mountain forests from western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It feeds on nectar at flowers.

• Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus

  This bird lives in humid forests from Central America into northern South America. It has a green back, white eyebrow, and pale throat edged in black, and feeds on fruit and insects in the lower vegetation.

• Orange-banded Flycatcher Nephelomyias lintoni

  This flycatcher occurs in the humid mountains of Ecuador and Peru. It has a pale eye and orange lower mandible, and takes insects from leaves or in flight.

• White-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus ensipennis

  This hummingbird occurs on Tobago and nearby areas. Males have a blue throat, while females are grayer, and both have conspicuous long white tail feathers. It hovers at flowers to take nectar and small insects.

• Shining Honeycreeper Cyanerpes lucidus

  Males are purple with a black throat and yellow legs, while females have green upperparts and a greenish-blue head. The bird feeds on nectar, berries, and insects in the canopy and at forest edges.

• Black-capped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus nigrocapillus

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a black crown and two pale wing bars. It lives in moist Andean montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.