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• Rufous-breasted Flycatcher Leptopogon rufipectus

  

  It has a slate-grey crown, a mottled rufous face and dark olive upperparts. The species occurs in the Andes; a study in western Napo, Ecuador, recorded birds searching for insects under leaves from perches in the forest's middle levels.

• Pardusco Nephelornis oneilli

  This bird lives in the high eastern-central Andes of Peru. It has darker upperparts, a paler underside, and pale wing-bars. It forages in humid montane scrub and grassland and may occur in family or mixed-species flocks.

• Tumbes Pewee Contopus punensis

  The Tumbes Pewee is a small flycatcher of dry to semi-humid forests in western Ecuador and Peru. It catches insects in short sallies from exposed perches.

• Rufous-chested Tanager Thlypopsis ornata

  This small tanager occurs in Andean scrub and along humid-forest edges in Peru and Ecuador.

• Fire-eyed Diucon Pyrope pyrope

  The Fire-eyed Diucon is a grey flycatcher with a red iris. In northwestern Patagonia, it uses humid forest edges, clearings and urban green spaces while catching insects.

• Mourning Sierra Finch Rhopospina fruticeti

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

• Drab Water Tyrant Ochthornis littoralis

  The Drab Water Tyrant is a small, mostly brown flycatcher commonly reported from the Amazon region. It forages alone or in pairs along riverbanks.

• Sulphur-rumped Tanager Heterospingus rubrifrons

  This tanager occurs in lowland forests from eastern Costa Rica to Panama. Its nest was described in detail for the first time from a 2023 observation in Costa Rica.

• Brown-capped Tyrannulet Ornithion brunneicapillus

  The Brown-capped Tyrannulet is a small bird of forest canopy, usually seen alone or in pairs. It has a short tail and yellow underparts, with a white eyebrow that curves across the forehead.

• 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-sided Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus

  This small flycatcher is recorded in campo cerrado in northern Bolivia. It searches tall grass and bushes for arthropods, making short sallies to catch them.

• Short-billed Honeycreeper Cyanerpes nitidus

  This is a honeycreeper with a short bill. In 2000, one male was recorded at Brownsberg Nature Park in Suriname.

• Short-tailed Field Tyrant Muscigralla brevicauda

  It has a gray head, white wing bars, long legs, and a short tail. It searches for food on the ground in open places and occurs in western Peru and nearby areas.

• Bluish Flowerpiercer Diglossa caerulescens

  This flowerpiercer ranges through the Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia. It uses humid montane forest and high-elevation scrub and grassland.

• Reiser's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias reiseri

  Reiser's Tyrannulet is recorded in Brazil and Paraguay. It has bright yellow-green upperparts and pale yellow underparts, and the field account reports it most often in gallery forest in Brazil's Cerrado.

• Black-throated Flowerpiercer Diglossa brunneiventris

  This flowerpiercer lives in the high Andes. Disjunct populations occur in northern Colombia and farther south in Peru, Bolivia and Chile, and their relationship has been studied.

• Yellow-winged Flatbill Tolmomyias flavotectus

  Its type description records yellow-edged wing feathers and a grey crown mixed with green. It ranges from southern Nicaragua to western Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes, in lowland evergreen and secondary forest.

• Glossy Flowerpiercer Diglossa lafresnayii

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

• White-bellied Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis albiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. It forages in the midstory and subcanopy.

• Flame-faced Tanager Tangara parzudakii

  The Flame-faced Tanager lives in montane forest on the eastern Andes. Peru Aves does not assign sex to its adult examples and describes an orange face, black throat, and greenish-buff underside. It lists the Peruvian form as subspecies urubambae.

• Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus pulchellus

  The Black-backed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny tyrant flycatcher of southeastern Peru's eastern Andean slope. It moves through thick foliage along forest edges and in second growth.

• White-shouldered Tanager Loriotus luctuosus

  This tanager occurs in Bolivia’s lowland forests. The male has a large white wing patch, and pairs or family groups move through the forest.

• Orange-eyed Flatbill Tolmomyias traylori

  This small flycatcher was described from the western Amazon. The original paper records sites in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and says the limits of its range were not known.

• Bay-chested Warbling Finch Castanozoster thoracicus

  It has a bluish-gray head and back with a broad rufous band along the flanks. It lives along high-elevation forest edges in southeastern Brazil.