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• Venezuelan Flycatcher Myiarchus venezuelensis

  

  A Myiarchus flycatcher found in Colombia and Venezuela. It has a gray-brown back and pale yellow underparts and is recorded in forests and at woodland edges.

• Inaccessible Finch Nesospiza acunhae

  The Inaccessible Finch lives on Inaccessible Island. Its three island subspecies differ in plumage, bill size, and foods.

• Ochraceous-breasted Flycatcher Nephelomyias ochraceiventris

  This small flycatcher lives in humid mountain forest east of the Andes. It searches leaves and branches in the canopy and may join mixed-species flocks.

• Woodpecker Finch Camarhynchus pallidus

  The sexes look alike, with brown-toned plumage. In the dry season it may use a twig or cactus spine as a tool to pull larvae from holes in wood.

• Greyish Mourner Rhytipterna simplex

  This tyrant flycatcher ranges across northern and central South America. It occurs in middle and upper levels of humid forest, feeds mainly on large insects, and also takes fruit.

• Black-and-white Seedeater Sporophila luctuosa

  This seedeater uses scrub and forest edges on Peru's eastern Andes. Males are black and white; females and juveniles are olive-brown, and males can become browner after breeding.

• Lemon-browed Flycatcher Conopias cinchoneti

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope. The Peru account gives an elevational range of 800–1,950 m and notes that it also occurs in Colombia and Ecuador.

• Black-throated Saltator Saltatricula atricollis

  This tanager lives in open grassland and savanna in eastern Bolivia, including lightly wooded and seasonally flooded areas.

• Spot-billed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maculirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher uses rocky slopes and lake margins in the high Andes. It searches for arthropods on the ground and also uses gravelly river edges during the Southern Hemisphere winter.

• Silver-beaked Tanager Ramphocelus carbo

  The Silver-beaked Tanager is a South American bird whose lower bill can look silvery. Males are dark red, while females are browner.

• Fire-eyed Diucon Pyrope pyrope

  The Fire-eyed Diucon is a grey flycatcher with a red iris. In northwestern Patagonia, it uses humid forest edges, clearings and urban green spaces while catching insects.

• Azure-shouldered Tanager Thraupis cyanoptera

  This tanager lives in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. It favors forested areas and may join other tanagers in the treetops.

• 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.

• Medium Ground Finch Geospiza fortis

  The Medium Ground Finch is endemic to the Galapagos and mainly eats seeds. On Santa Cruz, individuals vary in beak size.

• Suiriri Flycatcher Suiriri suiriri

  A flycatcher of dry savanna and open woodland in South America. A gray head, olive-brown back, and two gray wingbars help identify it.

• Bay-ringed Tyrannulet Phylloscartes sylviolus

  This small tyrannulet occurs in Brazil’s southeastern Atlantic Forest. It has cinnamon eye patches on a green head and may join mixed flocks in the canopy of humid forest.

• Olive-streaked Flycatcher Mionectes olivaceus

  This flycatcher occurs in montane forest on the eastern Andean slope. The Peru Aves account says it forages at different heights along forest edges and in second growth.

• Buff-breasted Flycatcher Empidonax fulvifrons

  A small flycatcher with a warm buff chest that launches from a perch to catch insects in the air.

• Tumbes Pewee Contopus punensis

  The Tumbes Pewee is a small flycatcher of dry to semi-humid forests in western Ecuador and Peru. It catches insects in short sallies from exposed perches.

• Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis

  The Western Kingbird has a gray back, yellow belly, and white edges on the tail. From an exposed perch in open country, it sallies after flying insects.

• Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer

  In Peru's eastern Andes, it forages in scrub, forest edges, and secondary forest. The source identifies the regional form as subspecies rufipes.

• Spectacled Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus orbitalis

  This small flycatcher uses the upper levels of humid Andean forest. A pale eye-ring and yellow wing-bars are useful identification marks.

• Three-striped Flycatcher Conopias trivirgatus

  Adults show a dark crown, white eyebrow, black eye-mask, and yellow throat and belly. The Peru Aves account describes them feeding in the canopy of seasonally flooded forest and along forest edges.

• Spectacled Tyrannulet Zimmerius improbus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. It uses mid-elevation forest and edges and searches for food in the middle to upper canopy.