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• Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus

  

  This hummingbird is endemic to the Santa Marta Mountains of northeastern Colombia. It has been little studied, so much of its natural-history information comes from observations in this small range.

• Pine Flycatcher Empidonax affinis

  This small flycatcher lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Guatemala. Its olive-grey body has a conspicuous eye ring.

• Crimson-backed Tanager Ramphocelus dimidiatus

  Males are red with black wings and tail and a thick, silvery lower bill. Females are duller reddish brown. Small groups use open lowland scrub and second-growth forest, feeding on fruit and insects.

• Blue-bearded Helmetcrest Oxypogon cyanolaemus

  The Blue-bearded Helmetcrest was recorded in the highlands of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. During a 2015 survey, observers saw it feeding at flowering plants.

• Brown-capped Tyrannulet Ornithion brunneicapillus

  The Brown-capped Tyrannulet is a small bird of forest canopy, usually seen alone or in pairs. It has a short tail and yellow underparts, with a white eyebrow that curves across the forehead.

• Capped Conebill Conirostrum albifrons

  This small conebill occurs in Andean forest. A field guide for the Sibundoy region describes sex-related head patterns and canopy foraging.

• Giant Hummingbird Patagona gigas

  This entry covers the southern species Patagona gigas. It looks very similar to the Northern Giant Hummingbird, P. peruviana, but differs in breeding range and vocalizations.

• White-bellied Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus griseipectus

  This small bird occurs in forest in southern Amazonian Peru and adjacent Bolivia. It has olive upperparts and pale, grey-streaked underparts.

• Black-and-white Tanager Conothraupis speculigera

  This tanager breeds in northwestern Peru and moves to the eastern Andean foothills and adjacent lowlands afterward. Males are black and white, females are mainly olive, and both sexes have red irises.

• Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis

  The Buff-bellied Hummingbird is notable for its red bill and throat that can look blue-green in the right light. It feeds in South Texas, and some birds move to Louisiana for winter.

• Ringed Antpipit Corythopis torquatus

  This South American forest flycatcher has a grey-brown crown, tawny shoulders, a white throat and belly, and a broad black breast band. It feeds on insects and other small prey.

• Yellow-scarfed Tanager Iridosornis reinhardti

  The Yellow-scarfed Tanager occurs in Peru's eastern Andes. It has a blue body, black head and golden band across the sides of the head, and forages in humid montane scrub and elfin forest.

• Santa Marta Blossomcrown Anthocephala floriceps

  This hummingbird lives in the Santa Marta mountains. The male has a peach-toned crown and gray throat, and the bird takes nectar from small flowers low in the vegetation.

• White-fronted Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albifrons

  In the Peruvian Andes, this ground-tyrant is associated with high-altitude bogs and cushion plants, at 3,700–4,900 m in the Peru Aves account. It can be locally common where suitable habitat occurs.

• Scarlet-breasted Dacnis Dacnis berlepschi

  The Scarlet-breasted Dacnis is recorded in humid lowland forest in southwestern Colombia. It searches for fruit and insects in the canopy.

• Cozumel Emerald Cynanthus forficatus

  This hummingbird is restricted to Cozumel Island, Mexico. Males are emerald green with a deeply forked tail; females also have a forked tail and a dark facial mask.

• La Sagra's Flycatcher Myiarchus sagrae

  This flycatcher is native to the western Caribbean islands. It has pale underparts and a thin bill. Records in Florida are treated as vagrants.

• Woodpecker Finch Camarhynchus pallidus

  The sexes look alike, with brown-toned plumage. In the dry season it may use a twig or cactus spine as a tool to pull larvae from holes in wood.

• 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.

• Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central and South America. Its upperparts are olive and its underside yellow, with faint yellow wingbars. It is recorded at forest edges, in secondary woodland, and along gallery forests.

• Inti Tanager Heliothraupis oneilli

  Heliothraupis oneilli was described from the lower Yungas of Peru and Bolivia. The study reports different recorded settings in the breeding season and dry season.

• Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis vesper

  This hummingbird occurs in dry Pacific coastal areas of Peru and northern Chile. Males perform courtship displays that include close shuttle flights and repeated dives.

• Cattle Tyrant Machetornis rixosa

  Its head and back are grayish and its belly is pale yellow. When alarmed, it may show hidden red feathers on its head.

• Purple Honeycreeper Cyanerpes caeruleus

  Male Purple Honeycreepers are blue to purple with bright yellow legs, while females have greenish and brown streaked plumage. They feed on nectar, fruits, and insects, often in the canopy.