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• Jamaican Mango Anthracothorax mango

  

  The Jamaican Mango is a hummingbird endemic to Jamaica that feeds on nectar. Iridescent colors fleck its mostly black body.

• Mourning Sierra Finch Rhopospina fruticeti

  It occurs in Argentine Patagonia and along the Andes, in shrub steppe and woodland-edge habitats.

• Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola flavinucha

  It spends the austral summer in northwestern Patagonia and is reported in Peru from March to October. Adults have an ochre patch on the back of the head; Peruvian records are at 3,800–4,900 m.

• Peruvian Sheartail Thaumastura cora

  This hummingbird is recorded from the Pacific side of Peru and Ecuador to northern Chile. It uses coastal scrub and vegetation along seasonal river valleys; adult males have very long tail feathers.

• Ringed Warbling Finch Microspingus torquatus

  This small bird lives in dry Andean scrub and open woodland. Females are duller overall and have a narrower, paler breast band.

• Blackish Pewee Contopus nigrescens

  This flycatcher occurs in humid forests of Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, and Peru. It may launch from high perches to catch food in the air.

• Lesser Violetear Colibri cyanotus

  The Lesser Violetear is a small hummingbird, about 11 cm long, found in the Andes from Colombia to Bolivia. In Peru it occurs in humid montane forest on the eastern slope and at high forest edges in the northwest.

• Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak Parkerthraustes humeralis

  It ranges from eastern Colombia to northern Bolivia and the southwestern Brazilian Amazon. In moist lowland forest it forages mainly in the canopy and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Slender-footed Tyrannulet Zimmerius gracilipes

  The Slender-footed Tyrannulet is a small flycatcher of South America. In the current species treatment, the Guianan Tyrannulet, Zimmerius acer, is separate and is not included here. This species lives in moist lowland forest and on tepuis, feeding on insects and small fruits.

• Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus

  This tiny hummingbird has a rufous crest and neck plumes in males; females lack both. It feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in forest edges, open country, gardens, and cultivation.

• Inaccessible Finch Nesospiza acunhae

  The Inaccessible Finch lives on Inaccessible Island. Its three island subspecies differ in plumage, bill size, and foods.

• Golden-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes hemichrysus

  This flycatcher is found in the montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its yellow underparts and dark stripe between the throat and lower cheek are distinctive. It eats fruit and insects and is usually seen in pairs or small family groups.

• 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.

• Rufous-browed Conebill Conirostrum rufum

  Its rufous brow and underparts contrast with a gray back and a narrow wing bar. It searches for insects along high-Andean forest edges and occurs in Colombian mountain regions.

• Roraiman Flycatcher Myiophobus roraimae

  A solitary forager of humid Andean forest, with a concealed orange-yellow crown patch in males.

• Black Inca Coeligena prunellei

  This hummingbird is endemic to Colombia's eastern Andes. Males have black plumage with a green-blue sheen and hover while feeding at flowers.

• Passerini's Tanager Ramphocelus passerinii

  The male is black with a red rump, while the female has a gray head and a mustard-colored rump. They blend among branches and eat fruit and small arthropods.

• Johannes's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus iohannis

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the forest understorey of Amazonia. It forages in dense foliage, forest edges, secondary growth, and along rivers and lakes; records reach about 800 m on the Andean foothills.

• Sapphire-vented Puffleg Eriocnemis luciani

  The Sapphire-vented Puffleg is a hummingbird with white feathered leg puffs and a long, forked blue-purple tail. It lives in Andean cloud forest and may visit hummingbird feeders where they are available.

• Lemon-rumped Tanager Ramphocelus icteronotus

  A tanager ranging from Colombia through Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It eats fruit in thickets and along moist forest edges.

• Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus pileatus

  This small tyrant is about 10 cm long. It has yellow-olive upperparts and a scaly-looking crest edged in rufous.

• Red-tailed Comet Sappho sparganurus

  This hummingbird occurs in the Andes from near Peru and Bolivia south to central Argentina. It uses dry open habitats up to and above the treeline.

• Great Pampa-Finch Embernagra platensis

  This large finch lives in shrubby grasslands and marshes in southern South America. It has a long tail and a strong orange-yellow bill; back and vent colors vary among forms.

• Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra

  The Rufous Mourner uses the canopy and edges of humid forest in Costa Rica. Adults are brown to rufous, and may be seen alone, in pairs, or in family groups.