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• Tit-like Dacnis Xenodacnis parina

  

  This small bird inhabits Andean scrub and Polylepis woodland. Males are deep blue; females are mainly brown, with the extent of blue on the forehead and crown varying among subspecies.

• Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii

  Canivet's Emerald ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Costa Rica. It visits flowers in woodland edges and scrub to feed on nectar.

• Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii

  A small flycatcher that breeds in North America and migrates through Central America to northern Colombia. It has an olive-brown back, a white throat and pale wing bars.

• Gray-crested Finch Lophospingus griseocristatus

  The Gray-crested Finch searches the ground in pairs or loose groups and uses dry scrub. Juveniles are browner overall, with buffy-white eyebrows and throats.

• Short-crested Coquette Lophornis brachylophus

  This small hummingbird is restricted to a limited mountain area in Guerrero, southwestern Mexico. Adult males have an orange-rufous crest and green gorget; females lack those ornaments.

• Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya

  This flycatcher inhabits dry, open country in western North America. Cinnamon tones wash across its underside, and it sallies from low perches to catch insects.

• Slaty Finch Haplospiza rustica

  Male Slaty Finches are lead-gray with a long, pointed bill. The species occurs from Central to South America and feeds mainly on bamboo seeds at moist highland forest edges.

• Wine-throated Hummingbird Selasphorus ellioti

  This small hummingbird lives in the highlands from southern Mexico to northern Central America. Males have a gleaming wine-red throat, and the birds use mountain forest edges and scrub where they feed on nectar.

• Stolid Flycatcher Myiarchus stolidus

  This flycatcher has a whitish throat and upper breast, with a pale yellow lower breast and belly. It lives in forests and mangroves and feeds mainly on insects, with some fruit.

• Sharp-beaked Ground Finch Geospiza difficilis

  A Darwin’s finch of the Galápagos highlands. Among related ground finches, its relatively stout, sharply pointed bill is a useful clue.

• Blue-throated Hummingbird Lampornis clemenciae

  The male Blue-throated Hummingbird has a throat of sapphire-colored feathers that glitter in good light. Both sexes have two white facial stripes and gray underparts.

• Bolivian Tyrannulet Zimmerius bolivianus

  This small bird has olive-yellow upperparts and pale underparts. It uses the canopy and subcanopy of humid Andean forest from southeastern Peru into Bolivia.

• Rust-and-yellow Tanager Thlypopsis ruficeps

  A small tanager of humid Andean forest edges, secondary growth and shrub cover. Records span 1,200–3,600 m.

• Buffy Hummingbird Leucippus fallax

  This small hummingbird occurs in northern Colombia and Venezuela. It uses dry scrub and mangroves and feeds on nectar and fruit.

• Rufous-winged Tyrannulet Mecocerculus calopterus

  This small tyrant flycatcher uses Andean forest and tall montane scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous-edged wing feathers contrast with a gray crown and back.

• White-capped Tanager Sericossypha albocristata

  This tanager lives in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its white cap and red throat and chest stand out, and family groups forage in the upper forest.

• Mangrove Hummingbird Amazilia boucardi

  The Mangrove Hummingbird is endemic to Costa Rica and mainly lives in Pacific-coast mangroves, especially where Pelliciera rhizophorae is abundant.

• Black-crowned Monjita Neoxolmis coronatus

  The Black-crowned Monjita is recorded in Argentina. Its black-and-white head and underside stand out; it often sits alone in an exposed place while searching for food.

• 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.

• Brown Violet-ear Colibri delphinae

  This hummingbird has a brown body and iridescent blue-violet feathers near the ears. Trinidad holds an isolated population within the species' wider range.

• Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs on Caribbean islands. It is found at forest edges and gardens and has dark olive-gray upperparts with a grayish-white underside washed yellow below.

• Great-billed Seed Finch Sporophila maximiliani

  The Great-billed Seed-Finch is a small seed-eating finch with an exceptionally thick, strong bill. Surveys in Brazil found it at very few marshy sites in the Cerrado.

• Blue-vented Hummingbird Saucerottia hoffmanni

  A 2010 adult photograph notes blue tones on the lower body and tail as an identifying feature. At one Costa Rican study site in 2022, birds visited flowers; this is a local record.

• Blue-billed Black Tyrant Knipolegus cyanirostris

  A tyrant flycatcher of forest edges and waterways, especially in southeastern Brazil. Males are glossy black with a pale bluish bill and red eyes.