The size of the Golden-breasted Puffleg is 12 to 13 cm and weighs between 5.2 and 5.8 g. It has a straight black beak; the upper parts are bright green and the lower parts are iridescent green; the neck, chest and belly are more iridescent coppery green.
The name of this species refers to its dark color and derives from the Greek lipauges which means dark or devoid of light and from the Latin roots fuscus = dark and cinereus = ash color.
The chestnut-crowned antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) is a species of bird in the Grallariidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest sand heavily degraded former forest, which it has a much greater tolerance for than most antpittas. Usually this bird lives at elevations of 1,900 to 3,100 m.
The grey-headed dove (Leptotila plumbeiceps) is a large New World tropical dove. It is a resident breeder from eastern Mexico to western Panama. It was formerly considered conspecific with the grey-fronted dove, L. rufaxilla, of South America and the Grenada dove, L. wellsi, of Grenada.
The white-bearded flycatcher (Phelpsia inornata) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is the only member of the genus Phelpsia. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.
The White-bearded Flycatcher is a medium-sized flycatcher restricted to the llanos of Venezuela. It superficially resembles the widespread Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis), but has a distinctive large-headed and short-billed appearance. It is uncommon and often inconspicuous in gallery forest and isolated woodlots. Pairs are most obvious when they display and duet in territorial defense. A non-breeding helper often assists a pair in nesting.
The cocoi heron (Ardea cocoi) is a species of heron in the family Ardeidae. It is common and widespread throughout most of South America including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It is a non-breeding visitor to Trinidad and Tobago and a vagrant to the Falkland Islands and Tristan da Cunha. Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, and freshwater lakes.
The snowy egret (Egretta thula) is a small white heron. The genus name comes from the Provençal French for the little egret aigrette, a diminutive of aigron, «heron». The species name thula is the Araucano for the black-necked swan, applied to this species in error by Chilean naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782.
The snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) is a bird of prey within the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures. Its relative, the slender-billed kite, is now again placed in Helicolestes, making the genus Rostrhamus monotypic. Usually, it is placed in the milvine kites, but the validity of that group is under investigation.
The pale-breasted spinetail (Synallaxis albescens), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from Costa Rica to Uruguay, and in Trinidad.
It is a member of the South American bird family Furnariidae, a group in which many species build elaborate clay nests, giving rise to the English name for the family of «ovenbirds».
The American pygmy kingfisher (Chloroceryle aenea) is a resident breeding kingfisher which occurs in the American tropics from southern Mexico south through Central America to western Ecuador, and then around the northern Andes cordillera in the east to central Bolivia and central Brazil. The species occupies the entire Amazon basin and the Tocantins River drainage adjacent in Pará state Brazil. It also occurs on Trinidad.
