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• Olive-faced Flatbill Tolmomyias viridiceps

  

  In a Colombian photo, the nominate form is shown with an olive back, yellow wing bars and a pale lower bill with a black tip. A 2024 study reported one nest each in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

• Eyebrowed Hemispingus Thlypopsis superciliaris

  This tanager forages in the canopy of humid Andean forest, often with mixed-species flocks. Plumage varies geographically; the description here is limited to birds from southern Cusco toward Bolivia.

• Sooty-crowned Flycatcher Myiarchus phaeocephalus

  A flycatcher recorded in northwestern Peru and the Marañón basin. PeruAves also lists Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia.

• 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.

• Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Nesotriccus murinus

  This small flycatcher ranges broadly from Central into South America, using scrub and wooded habitats. This account excludes populations assigned to the separately recognized Tumbesian and Marañón tyrannulets.

• Rufous-throated Tanager Ixothraupis rufigula

  A small tanager of western Colombia and western Ecuador. A foraging study near Mindo in Ecuador recorded it in the lower, drier disturbed forest and observed it searching leaf surfaces for arthropods.

• Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus vitiosus

  This small flycatcher lives in wet lowland forest and swampy areas across the Amazon region and the Guianas. Its long, pale-edged black crest and yellow-green wing bars are distinctive.

• Many-colored Chaco Finch Saltatricula multicolor

  This finch is recorded in Argentina’s low woods and grasslands. Adult males have a striking gray, orange, and white pattern, and the birds may hide among dense plants.

• Streamer-tailed Tyrant Gubernetes yetapa

  Adults have strikingly elongated central tail feathers. In southern Brazil, a breeding study found that fledged young first foraged independently, then joined mixed-species flocks.

• Lesser Antillean Saltator Saltator albicollis

  The Lesser Antillean Saltator is recorded in the Dominica Botanic Gardens and forest at the base of Morne Bruce. It has dark green upperparts, a white eyebrow, and a white throat.

• Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus furcatus

  This small flycatcher has a long, forked tail. It occurs along humid forest edges and in second growth in southeastern Brazil, especially in dense bamboo, where it gleans small insects.

• Yellow Cardinal Gubernatrix cristata

  The Yellow Cardinal is a yellow-and-black songbird, with different facial markings in males and females.

• Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulet Phylloscartes parkeri

  This small flycatcher is about 11.5 cm long. It ranges along the eastern Andean foothills of central and southeastern Peru and into adjacent northern Bolivia, using humid forest with tall canopy.

• White-bellied Seedeater Sporophila leucoptera

  A small bird of grassland with scattered bushes; males and females have different plumage.

• Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus

  This small tyrant flycatcher is endemic to Brazil. It has an olive-green head and back and eats mostly insects in humid forests.

• Amazonian Black Tyrant Knipolegus poecilocercus

  Males are black, while females are olive-brown. The bird forages inconspicuously in dense understory in flooded or seasonally flooded forest.

• Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes reguloides

  The Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant can raise its crown feathers and has black-and-white mottled plumage. A 2016–2017 urban-flora survey in Trujillo, northern Peru, recorded it searching algarrobo, acacia, and ponciana branches for food.

• 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.

• Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central American forest. At Guatemala's Laguna del Tigre National Park, it appears regularly in annual bird counts.

• Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus

  The Brown-crested Flycatcher launches from a branch to catch insects in the air; it is a large member of the tyrant flycatchers.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Greater Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura budytoides

  A flycatcher with a very long, white-tipped tail; it is also recorded in Argentine scrublands and protected areas.

• Mistletoe Tyrannulet Zimmerius parvus

  A small tyrant flycatcher ranging from Central America to northwestern Colombia. It is seen alone or in pairs in the middle and upper foliage.

• Long-tailed Tyrant Colonia colonus

  The male has extremely elongated central tail feathers. This forest-edge tyrant flycatcher perches to catch insects and spiders.