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• Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus

  

  The species is common in Panama and uses gardens, shrubby clearings, second-growth woodland, and forest edges. It moves between trees while searching for fruit and insects.

• Violet-bellied Hummingbird Chlorestes julie

  A small hummingbird whose male has a violet-glowing belly. It feeds mainly on nectar in humid lowland and foothill forests of northwestern Colombia.

• Cuban Pewee Contopus caribaeus

  This small bird occurs in Cuba and the Bahamas. It uses a range of places with trees, from forest to scrub.

• Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota

  The Fawn-breasted Tanager has a blue crown and dark facial markings. A São Paulo city account describes males with a blue crown, bluish-black back and wings, and fawn underparts; females and young birds are duller. It eats insects and fruit.

• Short-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon poortmani

  The Short-tailed Emerald is recorded in Colombia's Andes. A regional bird account lists montane forest, edges, and clearings, while Gould's historical description notes its short tail.

• American Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri

  The Dusky Flycatcher is a small bird of mountains and foothills in western North America. Its olive-gray back, bold eyering, and two wingbars stand out as it catches flying insects low in the vegetation.

• Plumbeous Seedeater Sporophila plumbea

  The Plumbeous Seedeater is a small bird about 10.5–11 cm long. In lowland Bolivia it is recorded in wooded grassland and savanna; in Colombia, records include the eastern plains and parts of the Andes.

• Andean Emerald Uranomitra franciae

  This hummingbird occurs in Colombia's Andes, using montane forest and edges as well as flower-rich secondary growth and gardens.

• Panama Flycatcher Myiarchus panamensis

  The Panama Flycatcher is a tyrant flycatcher found from southwestern Costa Rica to northern Venezuela. It uses semi-open scrub and woodland in lowlands and foothills.

• Vegetarian Finch Platyspiza crassirostris

  The Vegetarian Finch lives on several Galápagos Islands and uses its stout bill to take plant foods. It is extinct on Floreana.

• 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.

• Grey-crowned Flatbill Tolmomyias poliocephalus

  The Grey-crowned Flatbill is widespread in Amazonia, with records up to 1,300 m along the Andean foothills. It may forage in mixed-species flocks in the canopy of river-edge forest and on river islands.

• Peg-billed Finch Acanthidops bairdi

  This finch lives in volcanic highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its long upturned bill is distinctive, and it feeds on insects, seeds, and fruit in mountain forest and bamboo.

• Black Jacobin Florisuga fusca

  The Black Jacobin is a hummingbird with mostly black plumage, bronzy-green back and wing coverts, and a white tail. It feeds mainly on nectar but also takes insects, living in woodland and gardens from eastern and southeastern Brazil into neighboring countries.

• Ochraceous-breasted Flycatcher Nephelomyias ochraceiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid mountain forest east of the Andes. It searches leaves and branches in the canopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Yellow-bellied Tanager Ixothraupis xanthogastra

  This tanager lives in Amazonian forest and along the eastern Andean foothills. It is green with dark spots and a yellow center to the belly.

• Needle-billed Hermit Phaethornis philippii

  The Needle-billed Hermit uses lowland rainforest understory and takes nectar and small arthropods. It has a long straight bill and elongated central tail feathers tipped with white.

• Taczanowski's Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola griseus

  It occurs in the high Andes at 3,200–4,800 m; the same source also reports it from Bolivia and Chile.

• Slaty Flowerpiercer Diglossa plumbea

  This flowerpiercer occurs in the highlands from Costa Rica to western Panama. It can pierce the base of a flower with its upturned bill to obtain nectar.

• Marvelous Spatuletail Loddigesia mirabilis

  The Marvelous Spatuletail is a hummingbird whose male has racket-shaped ornaments at the ends of its tail feathers. It visits flowers for nectar, and males use the tail in courtship.

• 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.

• Band-tailed Seedeater Catamenia analis

  The Band-tailed Seedeater is a small bird whose male has blue-gray plumage and a white tail band. It feeds in dry montane scrub and other open habitats.

• 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.

• Serra do Mar Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus difficilis

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits coastal mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Olive-green upperparts, gray underparts, and white eye markings help identify it.