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• White-bellied Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus griseipectus

  

  This small bird occurs in forest in southern Amazonian Peru and adjacent Bolivia. It has olive upperparts and pale, grey-streaked underparts.

• Yellow-green Bush Tanager Bangsia flavovirens

  This tanager is recorded in montane forest in Colombia and Ecuador, where it moves among foliage in small groups and mixed flocks.

• White-rumped Sirystes Sirystes albocinereus

  The White-rumped Sirystes ranges from southwestern Venezuela to northern Bolivia in moist lowland forest. Accounts describe it foraging alone or in pairs in the canopy.

• Yellow-tufted Dacnis Dacnis egregia

  A small dacnis of humid Colombian forests and forest edges. Males are bright blue and yellow and forage for insects and fruit in the canopy.

• Greyish Mourner Rhytipterna simplex

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges across northern and central South America. It occurs in middle and upper levels of humid forest, feeds mainly on large insects, and also takes fruit.

• Gilt-edged Tanager Tangara cyanoventris

  This tanager occurs in hill and mountain forest of southeastern Brazil. Golden-yellow upperparts contrast with a turquoise underside. A survey at Serra do Caraça recorded it feeding on fruit in forest and rocky grassland.

• Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii

  Couch's Kingbird is a large flycatcher with yellow and gray plumage and a greenish back. It appears in southern Texas during summer.

• Little Inca Finch Incaspiza watkinsi

  This small bird lives in the lower Marañón region of northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, a brownish back, and a pale belly, and searches near the ground along woodland edges and in scrub.

• Crested Doradito Pseudocolopteryx sclateri

  The Crested Doradito is a small bird with a yellow belly and a black-and-yellow crest. It moves alone or in pairs, and studies report bill-snapping notes within its song.

• Black-capped Warbling Finch Microspingus melanoleucus

  This small tanager ranges across the southern part of South America, from Bolivia to Argentina. It uses scrub and open woodland and forages from the ground into low vegetation.

• Olive-faced Flatbill Tolmomyias viridiceps

  In a Colombian photo, the nominate form is shown with an olive back, yellow wing bars and a pale lower bill with a black tip. A 2024 study reported one nest each in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

• Gray-capped Hemispingus Kleinothraupis reyi

  The Gray-capped Hemispingus is found in the northwestern Venezuelan Andes. Its gray hood-like crown contrasts with yellowish-olive plumage.

• Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet Mecocerculus minor

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. It has an olive mantle, gray crown, and white eyebrow, and forages in the canopy with mixed-species flocks.

• Golden-collared Tanager Iridosornis jelskii

  This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A yellow band around the head and a dark facial mask stand out; it feeds on fruit and insects in the lower levels of humid montane forest.

• White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis albicauda

  The White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant is about 25–28 cm long. This diurnal bird of the high Andes looks for prey from a perch.

• Black-bellied Seedeater Sporophila melanogaster

  This seed-eating bird inhabits the highland grasslands of southern Brazil. A study recorded a rare male color form that differs from the usual plumage; it is not a separate species.

• Dusky-chested Flycatcher Myiozetetes luteiventris

  This flycatcher has a patchy distribution in Amazonia. Peru Aves marks its adult photographs sex unknown; they show a gray head and yellow chest, whose olive streaks can be faint.

• Blue-browed Tanager Tangara cyanotis

  The blue-green eyebrow contrasts with the black mask, crown, and back. This tanager lives in humid lower Yungas forest and mainly eats fruit.

• 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.

• Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa baritula

  The Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer is a nectar-feeding bird of the Mesoamerican highlands. Three allopatric subspecies are recognized, with genetic and plumage differences across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

• Paramo Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola alpinus

  The University of Azuay's account of the Cajas massif records this ground tyrant in páramo and grazed grassland. It walks over open ground on long legs and eats arthropods.

• Paradise Tanager Tangara chilensis

  The Paradise Tanager forages in the upper canopy of Amazonian forest in pairs or family groups, often joining mixed-species flocks. Its plumage combines green, black, blue, and a red or yellow-red rump.

• Southern Antpipit Corythopis delalandi

  A small forest bird of central and southeastern South America, it searches for food on the ground and in the lower forest layers. A regional study documented its distribution and habitat in the Yungas of Bolivia and Argentina.

• Azure-shouldered Tanager Thraupis cyanoptera

  This tanager lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It favors forested areas and may join other tanagers in the treetops.