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• Cinnamon Hummingbird Amazilia rutila

  

  The Cinnamon Hummingbird has a green head and back, a rufous tail, and cinnamon-colored underparts. It feeds at flowers and has also been observed in a protected area in northwestern Costa Rica.

• Red-billed Scythebill Campylorhamphus trochilirostris

  The Red-billed Scythebill is a forest bird with a very long, down-curved bill and fine streaks on the face and breast.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Seven-colored Tanager Tangara fastuosa

  This tanager has noticeable violet and orange plumage. It eats fruit and arthropods and also uses forest edges and gardens.

• Little Hermit Phaethornis longuemareus

  A University of the West Indies guide describes this tiny hummingbird as about 10 cm long. The male's throat is slightly darker than the female's; it feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in humid lowland habitats.

• White-chinned Woodcreeper Dendrocincla merula

  The White-chinned Woodcreeper lives low in humid Amazonian forest and is strongly associated with army-ant swarms, catching arthropods disturbed by the ants rather than eating the ants. A white chin is useful, but iris color varies among subspecies.

• Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus latirostris

  This small flycatcher occurs in several South American countries. Its reddish forehead and sides of the face contrast with olive upperparts. A Bolivia account records it in moist scrub and along rivers.

• Brassy-breasted Tanager Tangara desmaresti

  The green plumage has black streaks, a turquoise forehead and eye area, a brassy ochre breast, and a yellow line down the belly.

• Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus

  This large hummingbird shows purple and green plumage. Males and females differ below, and it feeds on nectar and small insects.

• Thick-billed Miner Geositta crassirostris

  This miner lives in dry western Peruvian slopes and coastal lomas. It has gray-brown upperparts, a stout bill, and a pale eyebrow, and searches the ground among rocks.

• Dark-faced Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maclovianus

  This southern South American migrant reaches the coast and adjacent foothills of northwestern Peru. The Peru Aves account places its Peruvian season from April to October and describes foraging in open places such as grassland and fields.

• Flame-faced Tanager Tangara parzudakii

  The Flame-faced Tanager lives in montane forest on the eastern Andes. Peru Aves does not assign sex to its adult examples and describes an orange face, black throat, and greenish-buff underside. It lists the Peruvian form as subspecies urubambae.

• Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingii

  This hummingbird lives in Andean mountain forest. Males flash a very long blue-green tail and look markedly different from females.

• Royal Cinclodes Cinclodes aricomae

  This large ovenbird is recorded in high-altitude woodlands of the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, including Polylepis woodland. Its large bill is conspicuous.

• Thick-billed Kingbird Tyrannus crassirostris

  This kingbird has a large head, massive bill, black mask, and white throat and breast. It launches from a high perch to catch insects, then returns to the perch.

• Brown-flanked Tanager Thlypopsis pectoralis

  This tanager is locally distributed in central Peru. It forages in Andean scrub and humid shrubbery.

• Bumblebee Hummingbird Selasphorus heloisa

  The Bumblebee Hummingbird occurs in Mexico. An early naturalist account says males used forest as their main setting but also visited wildflowers.

• Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris

  This small montane flycatcher forages in vegetation overhanging streams on the eastern Andes. Chestnut on the breast and belly varies across the Marañón Valley.

• Blue-winged Mountain Tanager Anisognathus somptuosus

  A tanager of Andean cloud forests, marked by a yellow crown and underparts and blue edging on the wings. It ranges from Colombia to Bolivia and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• 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.

• 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.

• Green-headed Tanager Tangara seledon

  This tanager is restricted to the Atlantic Forest. It uses forest and regrowth, as well as farms with scattered trees and gardens, and feeds on wild or cultivated fruit and insects.

• Green-tailed Trainbearer Lesbia nuna

  The Green-tailed Trainbearer is a high-Andean hummingbird. The male's long tail is distinctive, and the bird visits flowers in shrubland.

• White-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus stictopterus

  The White-banded Tyrannulet is a small bird of Andean forests. Its white eyebrow and two wing-bars stand out as it searches among leaves for small invertebrates.