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• 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.

• Common Diuca Finch Diuca diuca

  A gray-backed finch with a white throat and belly, it searches the ground for seeds. It may form winter flocks and live in territorial pairs in summer.

• Rufous-webbed Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus rufipennis

  The body is gray, with a pale center to the belly and pale undertail coverts. Rufous parts of the wings and tail show clearly in flight. It forages in open scrub and grassland in the high Andes.

• Green-bearded Helmetcrest Oxypogon guerinii

  The Green-bearded Helmetcrest is a hummingbird of the high páramo grasslands of Colombia's Eastern Andes. Males stand out for a crest and an iridescent green throat patch.

• Bananaquit Coereba flaveola

  This small nectar-feeding bird has a white eyebrow and yellow rump. It perches while feeding from flowers.

• Agile Tit-Tyrant Uromyias agilis

  The Agile Tit-Tyrant occurs in the mountains of Colombia, western Venezuela and Ecuador. It has olive-brown upperparts, black lores and a white throat streaked with brown. It searches for insects and fruit in moist montane forest edges and thickets.

• Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Chrysuronia coeruleogularis

  This hummingbird occurs in Panama and northern Colombia. Males are metallic green with a purplish-blue throat; females are green above and whitish below. It visits flowers in scrub, dry woodland, and mangroves.

• Cherry-throated Tanager Nemosia rourei

  This tanager lives in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Adults have a red throat and yellow eyes, and small groups forage on moss- and lichen-covered branches in the canopy.

• Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus capitalis

  At about 9.5 cm, this is a tiny flycatcher of the Amazonian understory. Peru accounts report populations in northern lowland Amazonia and a separate central Peruvian area.

• White-tailed Starfrontlet Coeligena phalerata

  The White-tailed Starfrontlet is a hummingbird known for the male’s white tail and the sexes’ different underside colors. It lives in humid mountain forest.

• Grey Pileated Finch Coryphospingus pileatus

  The Grey Pileated Finch is a South American finch found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. It searches for seeds on the ground and low shrubs; males can raise a red crest.

• Belted Flycatcher Xenotriccus callizonus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the highlands from Chiapas in southern Mexico through Guatemala to El Salvador. It uses scrubby woodland.

• Purple-chested Hummingbird Polyerata rosenbergi

  This hummingbird lives in humid Pacific lowland forests of northwestern Ecuador and western Colombia. Males have a blue-purple patch on the chest.

• Blue-and-yellow Tanager Rauenia bonariensis

  This tanager uses scrub and forest edges in South America. The PeruAves account reports solitary or paired foraging and describes several different Peruvian habitats.

• Dark Pewee Contopus lugubris

  This pewee occurs in mountain forests of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama. It is dark gray and is recorded along forest edges and openings; it may be solitary outside the breeding period.

• 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.

• Green-winged Saltator Saltator similis

  The Green-winged Saltator occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. It has a long white eyebrow, a white throat, and olive-green back and wings.

• Ashy-headed Tyrannulet Tyranniscus cinereiceps

  The Ashy-headed Tyrannulet occurs in the Andes from Venezuela to Peru. It forages in middle and upper forest levels and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Black-throated Hermit Phaethornis atrimentalis

  This hermit hummingbird lives in the forest understory of Amazonian areas and along humid forest edges in the Andean foothills. Its long, slightly curved bill and black throat stand out.

• Masked Saltator Saltator cinctus

  This bird lives in humid montane forest in the northern Andes and is often associated with bamboo thickets.

• Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant Pseudotriccus ruficeps

  The Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant was recorded in the understory of Colombia’s western Andes. At La Linda, observers heard a few individuals daily and captured an adult male in dense Chusquea bamboo.

• Fiery Topaz Topaza pyra

  The male has a copper-colored body and long tail feathers, and differs in color and tail shape from the female. It occurs in the canopy of northern Amazonian forest.

• Cinnamon Tanager Schistochlamys ruficapillus

  Cinnamon Tanager occurs mainly in Brazil south of the Amazon and uses semi-open grassy country with scattered shrubs and low trees. A specimen study describes a cinnamon-colored throat and breast and a whitish belly. It found substantial individual and geographic variation in plumage, so one color pattern does not represent every bird.

• Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum

  The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny flycatcher, about 9–10 cm long. It has a yellow stripe behind the eye, a black head, olive upperparts, and black wings.