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• 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.

• Rufous Spinetail Synallaxis unirufa

  This long-tailed ovenbird lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. The account describes four regional forms, so the nominate form's color is distinguished from variation elsewhere.

• 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.

• Fiery-tailed Awlbill Avocettula recurvirostris

  The Fiery-tailed Awlbill is a small hummingbird with a bill that curves upward at the tip. It occurs in northern South America and visits flowering trees and shrubs for nectar.

• Blue Finch Porphyrospiza caerulescens

  The Blue Finch is a grassland tanager. Adult males are bright blue with a yellow bill, and a field study found the species strongly associated with natural grasslands, especially upland grasslands.

• Junin Canastero Asthenes virgata

  This canastero occurs locally in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Its orange-rufous throat and pale eyebrow are distinctive.

• Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum

  The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is a tiny flycatcher, about 9–10 cm long. It has a yellow stripe behind the eye, a black head, olive upperparts, and black wings.

• White-booted Racket-tail Ocreatus underwoodii

  The White-booted Racket-tail is an Andean hummingbird. Males have puffy white leg feathers and a long tail that ends in racket-shaped tips.

• Rusty Flowerpiercer Diglossa sittoides

  This Andean bird feeds on nectar. Its hooked bill is used to pierce flowers and reach the nectar, as described in the regional guide.

• Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner Syndactyla rufosuperciliata

  This foliage-gleaner lives in moist mountain forest and tall secondary growth on the eastern Andes of Bolivia. Its buff eyebrow and streaked underside help identify it.

• Rufous-winged Tyrannulet Mecocerculus calopterus

  This small tyrant flycatcher uses Andean forest and tall montane scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous-edged wing feathers contrast with a gray crown and back.

• Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Chalybura urochrysia

  The Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer is a medium-sized, mostly green hummingbird. It is usually seen alone at flowers in forests or forest edges; females have whitish underparts and duller pink feet.

• White-throated Seedeater Sporophila albogularis

  This small bird is recorded in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil. Males have small white patches near the eye, and the birds take grass seeds from the ground. Regional accounts describe shrubland near wet places and along dry-forest edges.

• Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper Xiphorhynchus pardalotus

  A woodcreeper of northern South American forests. Pale streaks on its dark crown contrast with its chestnut rump, wings and tail.

• 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.

• White-throated Wedgebill Schistes albogularis

  This hummingbird occurs on the western slope of the Andes from western Colombia south to southwestern Ecuador. A South American Classification Committee proposal describes its habitat as a humid, Choco-type Pacific-slope distribution.

• Black-cowled Saltator Saltator nigriceps

  This saltator ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It occurs in humid montane forest, forest edges, and scrub.

• Puna Thistletail Asthenes helleri

  This ovenbird occurs in humid scrub and forest edges near treeline in southeastern Peru and is also recorded in Bolivia.

• Yellow-olive Flatbill Tolmomyias sulphurescens

  The Yellow-olive Flatbill is a tyrant flycatcher ranging from Central into South America. It occurs in open woodland, second growth and streamside clearings in lowlands and foothills, searching foliage for insects.

• White-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis castaneoventris

  The White-throated Mountain-gem lives in Costa Rican mountain forest. The adult description notes a white throat, pale green breast, and grayish tail.

• Greater Antillean Bullfinch Melopyrrha violacea

  This resident tanager occurs in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. BirdLife lists records from 0–2,000 m.

• Grey-flanked Cinclodes Cinclodes oustaleti

  Cinclodes oustaleti lives near Andean streams and lakes. It is dark brown, with a white eyebrow and throat, a pale-flecked dark breast, and a cinnamon wing-bar. It moves to lower elevations in winter.

• Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola capistratus

  The Cinnamon-bellied Ground Tyrant is a ground-dwelling flycatcher that spends the summer in northwestern Patagonia and uses Andean foothills and steppe wetlands.

• Crowned Woodnymph Thalurania colombica

  This hummingbird occurs in separate areas from Central America into northwestern South America. Males have violet or green crowns and backs, while females have grey throats and breasts; the birds feed on nectar and small invertebrates.