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• Rufous Casiornis Casiornis rufus

  

  This rufous flycatcher is covered in a regional account for Bolivia. It has a pale lower mandible and sallies for arthropods in the upper understory and subcanopy of dry to semi-humid woodland.

• Baird's Flycatcher Myiodynastes bairdii

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It has a gray head and back, rufous wings and tail, and a pale yellow underside, and forages in semi-open places.

• 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.

• 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.

• Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus latirostris

  This small flycatcher occurs in several South American countries. Its reddish forehead and sides of the face contrast with olive upperparts. A Bolivia account records it in moist scrub and along rivers.

• Greenish Elaenia Myiopagis viridicata

  The Greenish Elaenia has a concealed yellow crown patch. In Bolivia it occurs in woodland and wooded savanna, with lowland records varying by season.

• La Sagra's Flycatcher Myiarchus sagrae

  This flycatcher is native to the western Caribbean islands. It has pale underparts and a thin bill. Records in Florida are treated as vagrants.

• Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes alpinus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It moves along outer branches in Polylepis woodland and searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis atricapillus

  The adult male Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant has a black crown and white spectacles. The species uses humid lowland forest canopy, edges, clearings, and some second growth.

• Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus

  The Eastern Kingbird perches in open places to catch flying insects. It breeds in North America and migrates to South America for winter.

• Black-capped Piprites Piprites pileata

  This small bird inhabits highland Atlantic Forest from Brazil to Argentina. The male has a black cap and nape with warm-toned upperparts; the female is duller.

• 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.

• Planalto Tyrannulet Phyllomyias fasciatus

  This small bird has gray to olive-brown upperparts and a pale eye-ring. It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, feeding on insects and small fruits in the canopy of humid lowland forest.

• Olive-green Tyrannulet Phylloscartes virescens

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in the Guianas and northern and eastern Amazonia. It is olive green with a white eye-ring and pale wing markings, joins canopy flocks, and eats fruit and insects. Its full distribution remains incompletely known.

• 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.

• Grey-hooded Flycatcher Mionectes rufiventris

  This flycatcher breeds in forests of southeastern Brazil. Records from Minas Gerais describe nests hanging over small streams from roots or fern leaves, and blue-toned plumage in young birds near fledging.

• Yellow-throated Spadebill Platyrinchus flavigularis

  The Yellow-throated Spadebill is a small bird of cloud-forest understory in the Andes. Its range is patchy; a 2002 field study recorded it at 1,370 m on the Río Rumiyaco in Colombia.

• Lesser Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis murinus

  The Lesser Shrike-Tyrant is a tyrant flycatcher that catches insects on the ground. A species page from the National University of the Litoral describes it alone or in pairs, making short runs to catch insects and also perching at the tops of shrubs.

• Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca thoracica

  This chat-tyrant lives in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Along forest streams, it catches insects from a perch.

• Straneck's Tyrannulet Serpophaga griseicapilla

  Straneck's Tyrannulet is a small bird recorded in Argentina. It has a gray, streaked head and sometimes catches prey in flight while foraging alone or in pairs.

• 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.

• Southern Scrub Flycatcher Sublegatus modestus

  This small flycatcher breeds in southern South America and moves north toward the southern Amazon in some seasons. It occurs in lowland scrub, open woodland, and savanna.

• Choco Tyrannulet Zimmerius albigularis

  This small bird occurs in humid forest in south-western Colombia and western Ecuador. It has olive upperparts, a white throat, and yellowish flanks and undertail.

• Yellow-billed Tit-Tyrant Anairetes flavirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the Peruvian Andes and forages alone or in pairs in dry scrub.