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• Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater Sporophila torqueola

  

  The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater inhabits western Mexico’s grassy areas; males show a white collar above a dark breast band.

• Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus

  It is active by day in mountain forest and scrub, flying from perches to catch invertebrates in the air. Bolivian records include a historical specimen without a precise locality and a few sightings.

• Yellow-shouldered Grassquit Loxipasser anoxanthus

  The Yellow-shouldered Grassquit is found only in Jamaica, including forest edges and montane evergreen forest. It eats seeds and small fruits, foraging low in shrubs in pairs or family groups.

• Slaty Elaenia Elaenia strepera

  This tyrant flycatcher breeds in the southern Yungas of Bolivia and forages from the forest mid-levels to the canopy.

• Black-capped Hemispingus Kleinothraupis atropileus

  It occurs in northern Andean mountain forest, from south-western Venezuela through Colombia and Ecuador to far northern Peru. It is recorded at 2,300–3,200 m.

• Ashy-headed Tyrannulet Tyranniscus cinereiceps

  The Ashy-headed Tyrannulet occurs in the Andes from Venezuela to Peru. It forages in middle and upper forest levels and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Golden-crowned Tanager Iridosornis rufivertex

  This tanager lives in high-elevation scrub and elfin forest in the northern Andes. It is bright blue, with a black head and a golden crown.

• Maranon Tyrannulet Nesotriccus maranonicus

  This small flycatcher lives in the dry Marañón Valley of northern Peru. It has two pale wing bars and feeds on insects and fruits such as mistletoe.

• Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana

  A tanager found from Amazonian lowlands into foothills. Males are blue and black; females are green with blue on the head.

• Streak-necked Flycatcher Mionectes striaticollis

  The Streak-necked Flycatcher lives in Andean forests. A white mark behind the eye and dark streaks on its yellow underside help identify it; the account reports foraging along forest edges and in second growth.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• White Monjita Xolmis irupero

  The White Monjita is a South American tyrant flycatcher. A university species page describes the male as almost entirely white, with black eyes, wings, bill, and tail tip; it notes that females are greyer on the crown and back. The bird uses open grasslands and parks with scattered trees and often perches prominently.

• 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.

• Minas Gerais Tyrannulet Phylloscartes roquettei

  A small tyrannulet recorded in Minas Gerais, Brazil. In the study, birds used dry and gallery forests and searched for arthropods in tall trees.

• Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis montanus

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs in dry Andean scrub and urban areas. It has gray-brown plumage, a black bill, and a mostly white tail.

• Brown-breasted Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus obsoletus

  One individual was documented in a bamboo patch in Misiones, northeastern Argentina. The description here follows that local observation.

• Crowned Slaty Flycatcher Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus

  This gray tyrant flycatcher uses forest canopy, edges, and semi-open habitat. In Peru, austral migrants are usually recorded from February through November.

• Tumbesian Tyrannulet Nesotriccus tumbezanus

  This small flycatcher ranges from southwestern Ecuador to northwestern Peru and uses dry scrub and open woodland.

• Flammulated Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus flammulatus

  A small South American tyrant flycatcher. In Peru, records come from floodplain forest in the southeast and a separate central area with different forest cover.

• Red-rumped Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus erythropygius

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the high Andes. Gray head, back, and breast contrast with whitish markings on the forehead, throat, and sides of the face, plus rufous belly, rump, and tail. The account describes foraging in humid scrub, highland grassland shrubs, and Polylepis woodland, with perches on bushes and trees.

• Restinga Tyrannulet Phylloscartes kronei

  This small flycatcher is recorded in coastal forest in southeastern Brazil. Its habitat includes sandy restinga woodland and nearby riverine forest.

• Red-billed Tyrannulet Zimmerius cinereicapilla

  The Red-billed Tyrannulet lives in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andean slopes. It feeds in the canopy and subcanopy and may join mixed-species flocks.