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• Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae

  

  The male Blue-throated Hummingbird has a throat of sapphire-colored feathers that glitter in good light. Both sexes have two white facial stripes and gray underparts.

• Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus

  A flycatcher of lowland forests in Central and South America that eats fruit and insects.

• Rufous-sided Warbling Finch Poospizopsis hypocondria

  This small bird lives on dry, high Andean slopes and in scrub. It has brownish-gray upperparts, a white eyebrow and throat, and rufous sides.

• Cinnamon-sided Hummingbird Leucolia wagneri

  This small hummingbird occurs in Oaxaca, southern Mexico. Cinnamon-colored feathers on its sides are a notable field mark, although checklists differ on its taxonomic rank.

• Antioquia Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus lanyoni

  This flycatcher occurs in Antioquia and eastern Caldas in northern Colombia. It inhabits moist lowland forest and has prominent yellow markings around the eye and across the face.

• Beryl-spangled Tanager Tangara nigroviridis

  This tanager has dark plumage covered in iridescent blue-green spots. It occurs in Andean cloud forest from Venezuela to Bolivia.

• Spot-throated Hummingbird Thaumasius taczanowskii

  This roughly 12 cm hummingbird lives on the western slope of the northern Andes. Green upperparts, gray underparts, and dark throat and upper-breast speckles help identify it.

• Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii

  Couch's Kingbird is a large flycatcher with yellow and gray plumage and a greenish back. It appears in southern Texas during summer.

• Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum

  This tanager ranges widely through Central and South America. In Bolivia it occurs in forest and palm groves as well as cultivated land and urban parks.

• Volcano Hummingbird Selasphorus flammula

  This hummingbird occurs in the high mountains of Costa Rica. It uses open páramo and scrub, and male throat colors differ among mountain populations.

• White-headed Marsh Tyrant Arundinicola leucocephala

  The White-headed Marsh Tyrant perches on aquatic plants and reeds, and the sexes have different plumage. Records are also confirmed in Argentina.

• Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager Dubusia taeniata

  This mountain tanager has a dull-black central crown and back. The Bogotá guide records it in local forest and describes insects and fruit as food. Following the 2025 split, its range runs from southwestern Venezuela to far northern Peru.

• Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni

  The Green-headed Hillstar lives in the high Andes from southern Peru to southern Ecuador. It uses rocky grassland and scrub and feeds on nectar.

• Stolid Flycatcher Myiarchus stolidus

  This flycatcher has a whitish throat and upper breast, with a pale yellow lower breast and belly. It lives in forests and mangroves and feeds mainly on insects, with some fruit.

• Caribbean Grey Saltator Saltator olivascens

  This gray bird occurs in northern South America. It uses forest edges and thickets, and records note it feeding on morning-glory flowers.

• Red-billed Emerald Chlorostilbon gibsoni

  This small hummingbird occurs in dry woodland and scrub in Colombia and western Venezuela. The male is emerald green with a red lower bill.

• Warbling Doradito Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris

  This small tyrant flycatcher moves in short flights through reeds and searches low vegetation for food. The Argentine national account records it from the north of the country south to Chubut.

• Slender-billed Finch Xenospingus concolor

  It occurs in arid regions from central Peru to northern Chile, including riparian woodland and scrub near coastal wetlands.

• Buff-thighed Puffleg Haplophaedia assimilis

  A small hummingbird of the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its buff leg puffs and dark blue tail are useful field marks; it uses humid montane forest understory.

• Many-colored Rush Tyrant Tachuris rubrigastra

  This colorful small bird lives in reedbeds at lakes and lagoons. It has a black head with a red crown and yellow eyebrow, makes short flights near the water, and nests in reeds.

• Masked Cardinal Paroaria nigrogenis

  This tanager-like bird occurs in northeastern Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It uses wetlands and mangroves near water.

• Bronze-tailed Thornbill Chalcostigma heteropogon

  The Bronze-tailed Thornbill occurs in the high Andes of Colombia and western Venezuela. The male has a green throat and a pink-purple breast spot, and the bird feeds on nectar.

• Plain Inezia Inezia inornata

  A small South American tyrant flycatcher that uses young riverside vegetation and riparian scrub. In southeastern Peru it is a rare austral migrant, with most records from Madre de Dios.

• Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis

  A retiring lowland saltator from Mexico through Central America. It uses forest edges and thickets while searching for food, including flowers and fruit.