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• Ochre-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola flavinucha

  

  It spends the austral summer in northwestern Patagonia and is reported in Peru from March to October. Adults have an ochre patch on the back of the head; Peruvian records are at 3,800–4,900 m.

• Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius

  Males have black heads and throats against yellow bodies, while females have brown upperparts and yellow underparts. The species lives in humid Central American forest and sallies to catch insects.

• Blue Mountain Elaenia Elaenia fallax

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in Jamaica’s humid mountain forests. It has olive-brown upperparts and white wing-bars, and eats insects and fruit. Current references treat it separately from the former Greater Antillean Elaenia.

• Tucuman Mountain Finch Poospiza baeri

  This finch occurs in the Tucuman Mountain area of Argentina and Bolivia. Its grayish body is marked with orange-rufous on the forehead, eyebrow, and throat.

• Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum

  The Common Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird. In Bolivia, records place it in lowland woodland and scrub, where it searches leaves for small animals.

• Lesser Grass Finch Emberizoides ypiranganus

  This small tanager is associated with grassy wetlands and sedge marshes in South America. The account describes it as sedentary.

• Swainson's Flycatcher Myiarchus swainsoni

  This flycatcher was documented in a study of subtropical Atlantic Forest in southeastern Paraguay. At the study site it used forest, forest edges, and riparian areas.

• Indigo Flowerpiercer Diglossa indigotica

  This tanager inhabits humid forest on the lower western Andean slopes of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Its brilliant indigo-blue plumage is distinctive.

• Spectacled Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus orbitalis

  This small flycatcher uses the upper levels of humid Andean forest. A pale eye-ring and yellow wing-bars are useful identification marks.

• 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.

• Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Brazil. It has an olive-green head and back and eats mostly insects in humid forests.

• Greater Flowerpiercer Diglossa major

  This large flowerpiercer occurs in southeastern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil. It has a broad black mask, bluish-slate plumage, and a pale blue-gray bill with a strongly hooked tip. It feeds on nectar and insects.

• Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus

  The Least Flycatcher is a small bird with a pale eye ring that darts from a perch to catch insects.

• Yellow-bellied Tanager Ixothraupis xanthogastra

  This tanager lives in Amazonian forest and along the eastern Andean foothills. It is green with dark spots and a yellow center to the belly.

• Short-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus ferox

  This flycatcher forages in river-created habitats and other second growth in Amazonia. Its gray breast changes sharply to a yellow belly.

• 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.

• Golden-crowned Flycatcher Myiodynastes chrysocephalus

  This flycatcher inhabits humid Andean montane forest. Its yellow crown patch can be concealed, while a broad white eyebrow and streaked yellow underparts are conspicuous.

• Black-bellied Tanager Ramphocelus melanogaster

  This tanager is endemic to Peru's Mayo and Upper Huallaga valleys. It forages in semi-open country, forest edges, and secondary scrub; males show red plumage with a dark central belly.

• River Tyrannulet Serpophaga hypoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives along rivers in the Amazon basin. It has a gray back and pale underparts, and catches flying insects over young river-edge vegetation.

• Golden-chested Tanager Bangsia rothschildi

  A tanager of humid forests on the Pacific side of the Andes from central Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It has a black body with a yellow breast patch and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis

  A flycatcher with bright yellow underparts, a pale eye-stripe, and a black face, commonly seen in open countryside in Latin America.

• Slate-colored Grosbeak Saltator grossus

  The Slate-colored Grosbeak forages in the canopy and subcanopy of mature forests. Peru Aves shows an adult of unknown sex photographed in Pichincha, Ecuador.

• Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus mirandae

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northeastern Brazil. A 2025 study describes it in the humid understory of semideciduous forest and reports solitary insect foraging.

• 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.