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• Masked Cardinal Paroaria nigrogenis

  

  This tanager-like bird occurs in northeastern Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It uses wetlands and mangroves near water.

• Jamaican Elaenia Myiopagis cotta

  The Jamaican Elaenia is a small tyrant flycatcher of humid montane and foothill forests in Jamaica.

• Spotted Tanager Ixothraupis punctata

  This tanager is described in a Suriname guide as a bird of the middle forest layers, seen in pairs or small groups. Its green plumage has dark edges.

• Loja Tyrannulet Zimmerius flavidifrons

  This small bird occurs in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A western Ecuador field guide places it in humid and deciduous foothill and subtropical forests, with gray-toned upperparts and faint yellow wing markings. Checklists differ on whether this regional form is a species or a subspecies, so the account keeps to its local range.

• White-winged Shrike-Tanager Lanio versicolor

  In Peru, the White-winged Shrike-Tanager is reported south of the Amazon and lower Marañón rivers. Males have black heads, wings, and tails with a broad white wing patch; the rest of the body is yellow. Females are mostly olive-brown with a yellowish center to the belly.

• Wing-barred Piprites Piprites chloris

  A small forest bird of South America. It has a pale eye-ring and yellow forehead and throat, and searches for insects and some fruit in the upper middle levels and canopy.

• Crimson-collared Tanager Ramphocelus sanguinolentus

  A mostly black bird with a broad crimson band across the throat and chest and a red rump. The sexes look alike. It ranges from southeastern Mexico to western Panama and uses wet forest.

• Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi

  The Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant was observed at several sites in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Its head and back range from brown to olive, while the throat and belly are pale yellow. The study describes foraging in forest edges and shaded secondary growth.

• Orange-fronted Yellow Finch Sicalis columbiana

  This small finch occurs in northern South America. Orinoco field notes describe small flocks along pond and stream edges. The recorded female had olive-brown upperparts and a paler belly.

• Panama Tyrannulet Phylloscartes flavovirens

  This small tyrannulet is locally distributed in Panama. It searches for arthropods in the forest canopy and is recorded as a year-round resident.

• 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.

• Sierran Elaenia Elaenia pallatangae

  This small flycatcher ranges along the Andes from southwestern Colombia through Ecuador and Peru to central Bolivia. It occurs at edges of humid montane forest.

• Woodpecker Finch Camarhynchus pallidus

  The sexes look alike, with brown-toned plumage. In the dry season it may use a twig or cactus spine as a tool to pull larvae from holes in wood.

• Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca rufipectoralis

  This chat-tyrant occurs around Andean montane forest and scrub. The rufous breast gives the bird its name; the Peru Aves account also reports it from high-elevation forest in Peru.

• Purplish-mantled Tanager Iridosornis porphyrocephalus

  This tanager occurs in forests of western Colombia and Ecuador. It has a purplish-blue body and a bright yellow throat, and feeds on insects and fruit.

• Western Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus aequinoctialis

  This flycatcher lives in lowland and foothill forests in Central and South America. Its very broad bill and faint pale eye-ring help identify it.

• 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.

• Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus cinnamomeipectus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the mountains of southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru. A 2004 Ecuadorian survey recorded birds searching leaf undersides in dense low vegetation.

• 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.

• Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus fumifrons

  A tiny, roughly 9 cm tyrant flycatcher. It forages inconspicuously in low bushes, and pendant pouch-like nests have been recorded in French Guiana.

• Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi

  The Azure-rumped Tanager occurs in Pacific-slope mountains of western Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. A Guatemalan study recorded it in humid broadleaf forest and shade coffee plantations.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Inaccessible Finch Nesospiza acunhae

  The Inaccessible Finch lives on Inaccessible Island. Its three island subspecies differ in plumage, bill size, and foods.

• Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe

  A small flycatcher of eastern North America, the Eastern Phoebe often launches from a low perch to catch flying insects.