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  • Rufous-tailed Tyrant Knipolegus poecilurus
    Rufous-tailed Tyrant
    Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0

    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.

  • Slate-colored Seedeater Sporophila schistacea

    Males range from dark gray to gray-olive. The species occurs around humid forest edges and understory, and may move in search of seeding bamboo, though it is not an obligate bamboo specialist.

  • Spotted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum maculatum

    In northern Bolivia, this small flycatcher occurs in Amazonian river- and lake-edge forest and tall second growth.

  • Masked Crimson Tanager Ramphocelus nigrogularis

    This tanager occurs in Colombia's lowlands and foothills. It has been recorded foraging for fruit and insects in trees.

  • Brujo Flycatcher Pyrocephalus nanus

    This flycatcher is found only in the Galápagos Islands. It perches on exposed branches and darts out to catch insects.

  • Black-headed Hemispingus Pseudospingus verticalis

    This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slope north and west of the Marañón Valley. The species account also lists records from Colombia and Ecuador.

  • Yellow-crowned Elaenia Myiopagis flavivertex

    A small flycatcher of northern Amazonian lowlands. Peru Aves describes olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and fine yellow wing-bars.

  • Chestnut-backed Tanager Stilpnia preciosa

    This tanager lives in forests and forest edges of southeastern South America, feeding on fruit and canopy insects. It sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

  • Sao Francisco Black Tyrant Knipolegus franciscanus

    The Sao Francisco Black Tyrant is recorded in Brazil's dry-forest region. A survey in central Minas Gerais found it most often in dry forest and along its edges.

  • Black Flowerpiercer Diglossa humeralis

    This flowerpiercer inhabits the high Andes from Venezuela to Peru and has a distinctive upturned, hooked bill.

  • White-crested Spadebill Platyrinchus platyrhynchos

    This small flycatcher feeds in the understory of Amazonian forest. It is widespread but considered rare in Peru.

  • Green Warbler-Finch Certhidea olivacea

    The Green Warbler-Finch is endemic to the Galápagos and has the thinnest bill among Darwin's finches. It probes leaves and moss for small arthropods.

  • Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant Atalotriccus pilaris

    This tiny tyrant flycatcher inhabits dry lowlands from Central America into northern South America. Its pale eye and yellow wing-bars help identify it.

  • Slaty Finch Haplospiza rustica

    Male Slaty Finches are lead-gray with a long, pointed bill. The species occurs from Central to South America and feeds mainly on bamboo seeds at moist highland forest edges.

  • Cinereous Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola cinereus

    This tyrant flycatcher visits the high Andes as an austral migrant. It has gray upperparts and whitish underparts, and is recorded at 4,000–4,700 m among rocky, shrubby grasslands.

  • Rufous Flycatcher Myiarchus semirufus

    This flycatcher is restricted to dry habitats in northwestern Peru. Peru Aves labels its adult photographs sex unknown; the birds are mostly rufous with a gray-brown head and mantle and a black bill.

  • Noronha Elaenia Elaenia ridleyana

    The Noronha Elaenia occurs on the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil. It uses scrub, woodland, thickets, and gardens and eats insects and small fruit.

  • Taczanowski's Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola griseus

    It occurs in the high Andes at 3,200–4,800 m; the same source also reports it from Bolivia and Chile.

  • Puerto Rican Flycatcher Myiarchus antillarum

    A flycatcher found in Puerto Rico that searches for prey from a perch.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Juan Fernandez Tit-Tyrant Anairetes fernandezianus

    This species is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island in Chile's Juan Fernández Islands. It usually stays in scrub along forest edges and feeds on insects.

  • White-bellied Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis albiventris

    This small flycatcher lives in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. It forages in the midstory and subcanopy.

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