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• White-bellied Seedeater Sporophila leucoptera

  

  A small bird of grassland with scattered bushes; males and females have different plumage.

• Grey-backed Tachuri Polystictus superciliaris

  This small flycatcher is endemic to the eastern Brazilian highlands. It uses rocky or shrubby grassland and catches insects while clinging to long grass stems.

• Coppery-bellied Puffleg Eriocnemis cupreoventris

  This small hummingbird has green plumage, a copper-colored belly, and white leg puffs. It lives in montane areas of Colombia's Eastern Cordillera and northwestern Venezuela.

• Black-crested Finch Lophospingus pusillus

  This small finch occurs in South American Chaco woodland, woodland edges and grasslands. Its usual range extends from southern Bolivia through Paraguay to west-central Argentina. A bird recorded near Mendoza city in 2024 may have escaped or been released.

• Crowned Slaty Flycatcher Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus

  This gray tyrant flycatcher uses forest canopy, edges, and semi-open habitat. In Peru, austral migrants are usually recorded from February through November.

• Bronzy Inca Coeligena coeligena

  The Bronzy Inca is a hummingbird with mostly bronzy-brown plumage. It lives in Andean montane forest and is recorded at about 1,000–2,200 m in Peru.

• Glossy Flowerpiercer Diglossa lafresnayii

  The Glossy Flowerpiercer has glossy black plumage and a blue shoulder patch and forages along Andean forest edges.

• Apical Flycatcher Myiarchus apicalis

  This flycatcher is endemic to Colombia. It has a bushy crest and pale tips to its tail feathers. It feeds on insects and small fruits in dry-valley scrub and woodland.

• Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus

  This is a tiny hummingbird whose male throat patch may flash purple or pink with the light. It feeds on nectar; the cited distribution account is limited to southwestern Colombia.

• White-bridled Finch Melanodera melanodera

  The White-bridled Finch forages on the ground in the grasslands of Magallanes and has conspicuous yellow wings.

• Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus calopterus

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is about 9.5 cm long. It forages in dense understory at forest edges and in second growth; in northern Peru it is recorded along the Andean foothills up to about 600 m.

• Royal Sunangel Heliangelus regalis

  This small hummingbird occurs in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. Males are deep blue, while females are green with cinnamon-colored underparts.

• Metallic-green Tanager Tangara labradorides

  This small, iridescent green tanager is recorded in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It uses montane forest canopy and second growth and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum poliocephalum

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in lowlands of southeastern Brazil. It is found in shrubs at forest edges, clearings, gardens, and parks.

• Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Saucerottia castaneiventris

  A hummingbird endemic to Colombia, with a bronze-red back, chestnut belly, and iridescent green throat. It takes nectar and may defend sites where flowers are abundant.

• Black-and-yellow Tanager Chrysothlypis chrysomelas

  Males have yellow heads and underparts with black backs and wings. Females are olive above and yellow below; both use the canopy of wet forests to search for fruit and arthropods.

• Chapada Flycatcher Guyramemua affine

  The Chapada Flycatcher inhabits cerrado and seasonally flooded savanna. It forages alone or in pairs in tree crowns, taking arthropods from foliage and branches as well as fruit.

• Large Tree Finch Camarhynchus psittacula

  This finch is endemic to the Galapagos Islands. It has a large, deep bill for searching tree bark and leaves for insects and uses habitats from arid coasts to humid forest.

• 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.

• Plumbeous Sierra Finch Geospizopsis unicolor

  This finch inhabits the Andean highlands. It forages on rocky ground and steppe slopes and may move to lower ground in winter.

• Northern Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes phaeocercus

  This 12–14 cm flycatcher is active by day in mountain forest and pine-oak woodland. It catches insects in the air by darting out from a perch. It does not migrate.

• Oleaginous Hemispingus Sphenopsis frontalis

  This tanager relative lives in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. Its yellow-olive head and back, yellowish underparts, and dense-foliage foraging are useful field marks.

• Long-crested Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus eulophotes

  This small bird is recorded in the understory of humid western Amazonian forest, including vegetation patches after treefalls and stands of Guadua bamboo.

• Sulphur-throated Finch Sicalis taczanowskii

  A finch of northwestern Peru's tropical savanna. It has gray-brown upperparts, light-brown underparts, and a yellow face and throat.