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• Giant Kingbird Tyrannus cubensis

  

  This large tyrant flycatcher has a massive black bill and orange crown feathers that may be raised in display. Its range is restricted to forested parts of Cuba.

• Double-collared Seedeater Sporophila caerulescens

  The Double-collared Seedeater occurs at forest edges, in scrub, and near farmland. Males have a black face and double collar, while females are brown.

• 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.

• Gray-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa carbonaria

  This flowerpiercer occurs in Bolivia. Its slender bill ends in a prominent hook used to pierce flowers for nectar. A 2021 field study recorded new observation sites in Potosí Department.

• Stub-tailed Spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus

  The Stub-tailed Spadebill is a small bird whose nest was observed in dry lowland forest in Costa Rica. At that nest, adults carried spiders and insects to the chicks.

• White-throated Sierra Finch Idiopsar erythronotus

  The White-throated Sierra Finch forages on the ground in open Andean country. Adults are gray overall, with a white throat and a paler lower belly.

• White-tailed Tyrannulet Mecocerculus poecilocercus

  The White-tailed Tyrannulet searches for insects in the canopy of humid Andean forest. White inner webs of the tail feathers and pale wingbars help identify it.

• Uniform Finch Haplospiza unicolor

  This finch occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It inhabits moist Atlantic Forest with bamboo in the understory; males are gray and females are brown.

• 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.

• Greenish Yellow Finch Sicalis olivascens

  It lives in Andean scrub and forages on the ground. The Peruvian account places it at 1,650–4,200 m, in pairs or family groups.

• Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum

  This small tyrannulet is recorded in wooded habitats in Argentina and Bolivia. An Argentine account gives a length of about 11 cm.

• Boulder Finch Idiopsar brachyurus

  This finch lives among boulder fields and high-altitude grasslands in the southern Andes. Its large bill is distinctive.

• Olive-green Tyrannulet Phylloscartes virescens

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the Guianas and northern and eastern Amazonia. It is olive green with a white eye-ring and pale wing markings, joins canopy flocks, and eats fruit and insects. Its full distribution remains incompletely known.

• Cinnamon Warbling Finch Poospiza ornata

  This small finch has a gray face and back, a chestnut patch on the mid-back, and cinnamon tones on its eyebrow and underparts. It breeds in Argentina’s Monte Desert and moves north-east in winter.

• 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.

• Emerald Tanager Tangara florida

  The Emerald Tanager searches for fruit in the canopy of humid montane forest and also finds small invertebrates in moss on branches.

• 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.

• Scrub Tanager Stilpnia vitriolina

  The Scrub Tanager occurs in the northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador and uses scrub and forest edges.

• Mouse-grey Flycatcher Myiophobus crypterythrus

  This small flycatcher ranges from southwestern Colombia through western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It is recorded in light woodland and shrubby openings.

• Golden-chevroned Tanager Thraupis ornata

  This tanager inhabits forest and forest edges in eastern Brazil. It feeds on fruit, flower buds and small animals.

• Serra do Mar Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus difficilis

  This small tyrant flycatcher inhabits coastal mountain forest in southeastern Brazil. Olive-green upperparts, gray underparts, and white eye markings help identify it.

• Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola

  The Bay-headed Tanager has a chestnut head, green back, and blue-green rump and underparts. It eats fruit in forest canopies and edges and may join mixed-species flocks.

• White-crested Elaenia Elaenia albiceps

  A white crown, olive-grey back and pale wing bars identify this flycatcher. In Chile it occurs from the north of the country to Magallanes, in woods, scrub and gardens.

• Bananaquit Coereba flaveola

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