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• White-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus mystaceus

  

  The White-throated Spadebill is a small bird with a broad, flat bill and a white throat. In Peru, it searches for food in the understory of humid montane forest.

• 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.

• White-throated Flycatcher Empidonax albigularis

  This small flycatcher is identified by its whitish throat and pale wingbars. It uses marshes and semi-open areas with shrubs, and winters mainly in lowland marshes.

• Dark-throated Seedeater Sporophila ruficollis

  The Dark-throated Seedeater is a small bird of open South American landscapes. The male has a gray back, black throat and upper breast, and rufous rump and underparts; the female is olive-brown. Rare records from southeastern Peru are described as visits by migrants.

• Chocolate-vented Tyrant Neoxolmis rufiventris

  This tyrant flycatcher breeds in Patagonian grasslands and moves to the Pampas for winter. It walks through open grass or scrub and searches for food on the ground.

• Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza

  This honeycreeper ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil and Trinidad. It takes nectar and fruit and forages in forest canopies and edges.

• Mountain Elaenia Elaenia frantzii

  A highland flycatcher found from Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and forages at forest edges and fruiting bushes.

• Brazilian Tanager Ramphocelus bresilia

  Males are bright red and females are brownish. The species occurs in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil; the diet records come from a study in one reserve in Rio de Janeiro state.

• Chico's Tyrannulet Zimmerius chicomendesi

  This small tyrannulet is documented in Amazonas State in central Amazonian Brazil. It uses open woodland and scrub on sandy or rocky sand soils.

• 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.

• Alagoas Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ceciliae

  A small flycatcher of the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. A foraging study often recorded birds in the canopy making sallies to take prey from foliage or the air.

• Fulvous-headed Tanager Thlypopsis fulviceps

  This tanager occurs in mountain forests of Colombia and Venezuela. It has a rufous head, gray back and tail, and gray to whitish underparts.

• Cock-tailed Tyrant Alectrurus tricolor

  The Cock-tailed Tyrant lives in South American grasslands. The male has a white face and underside, a black patch at the side of the breast, and a long tail; the female is brown with a short tail.

• Golden-naped Tanager Chalcothraupis ruficervix

  This tanager uses humid cloud forest and upper forest levels on the eastern Andes. It joins mixed flocks and searches for small animals and fruit.

• Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata

  The Greenish Elaenia has a concealed yellow crown patch. In Bolivia it occurs in woodland and wooded savanna, with lowland records varying by season.

• Lesson's Seedeater Sporophila bouvronides

  Lesson's Seedeater is a seasonal visitor to the northern lowlands of Bolivia. The Birds of Bolivia account describes it there as a rare, local nonbreeding visitor.

• Golden-crowned Spadebill Platyrinchus coronatus

  This tiny flycatcher stays in the lower levels of Amazonian forest. Its broad bill, rufous crown, and black-edged cheek markings distinguish it from similar spadebills.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 Tyrannulet Serpophaga subcristata

  This tyrannulet has yellow-bellied and whitish-bellied forms. Both use scrub and open woodland, avoiding closed forest. It ranges from Bolivia south to Argentina.

• Black-throated Grosbeak Saltator fuliginosus

  The Black-throated Grosbeak lives in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest and nearby regions. It searches for fruit and seeds in the middle forest layer, sometimes in mixed-species flocks.

• Loggerhead Kingbird Tyrannus caudifasciatus

  The Loggerhead Kingbird is a big-headed flycatcher widespread in the Caribbean. It occasionally wanders to Florida in North America.

• Cinereous Finch Piezorina cinerea

  Cinereous Finch is a finch about 16 cm long. The specialist species page lists dry scrub and dry woodland as habitat and classifies its diet as omnivorous. The same page lists several song and call recordings from Peru.