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• Black-headed Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum nigriceps

  

  This flycatcher lives in moist forest from Central America into north-western South America and catches small insects in the canopy and at forest edges.

• White-rumped Sirystes Sirystes albocinereus

  The White-rumped Sirystes ranges from southwestern Venezuela to northern Bolivia in moist lowland forest. Accounts describe it foraging alone or in pairs in the canopy.

• Caribbean Elaenia Elaenia martinica

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs on Caribbean islands. It is found at forest edges and gardens and has dark olive-gray upperparts with a grayish-white underside washed yellow below.

• Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris

  This small montane flycatcher forages in vegetation overhanging streams on the eastern Andes. Chestnut on the breast and belly varies across the Marañón Valley.

• Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum

  This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• 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.

• Tawny-chested Flycatcher Aphanotriccus capitalis

  About 12 cm long, this small flycatcher has a gray head, white throat, orange-brown breast, and yellow belly. It hunts insects in dense forest undergrowth.

• Rufous Twistwing Cnipodectes superrufus

  This large tyrant-flycatcher has records from Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil in southwestern Amazonia. It is strongly associated with forests dominated by Guadua bamboo, although its life history remains poorly known.

• Bran-colored Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus

  This small flycatcher has a strongly streaked breast and variable brown, rufous, and intermediate plumages.

• Orange-crested Flycatcher Myiophobus phoenicomitra

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid Andean forests. Sighting and photographic records of its subspecies are reported from Colombia's eastern Andean slope.

• Fulvous-breasted Flatbill Rhynchocyclus fulvipectus

  It forages in the mid-story of humid montane forest on the eastern Andean slopes and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks. It has olive upperparts, a tawny breast and a broad, flat bill.

• Lesser Antillean Pewee Contopus latirostris

  A pewee distributed across Puerto Rico and islands of the Lesser Antilles. Subspecies differ among islands, including in the color of the breast and belly.

• Rufous-browed Tyrannulet Phylloscartes superciliaris

  This small flycatcher uses the canopy of humid montane forest. A Peru Aves account for northeastern Peru describes a gray head, a fine rufous eyebrow, and pale cheeks.

• Antioquia Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus lanyoni

  This flycatcher occurs in Antioquia and eastern Caldas in northern Colombia. It inhabits moist lowland forest and has prominent yellow markings around the eye and across the face.

• Drab Water Tyrant Ochthornis littoralis

  The Drab Water Tyrant is a small, mostly brown flycatcher commonly reported from the Amazon region. It forages alone or in pairs along riverbanks.

• Rufous-tailed Attila Attila phoenicurus

  It has a grey head and a chestnut body. It occurs in southern South America and moves north toward the central Amazon during the austral winter.

• Sepia-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon amaurocephalus

  This small flycatcher forages in the midstory of Amazonian forest. Its dark brown cap and large black ear patch are distinctive.

• Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus diops

  This small tyrant flycatcher has olive upperparts, a white eye-ring, a grey breast, and yellow at the bend of the wing. It occurs from south-eastern Brazil through eastern Paraguay to north-eastern Argentina, foraging in the understory of humid forest and secondary growth, especially bamboo patches.

• Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus minor

  Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant occurs in dense understory in the Amazon Basin. In Peru, the account reports only a few sight records along the Yavarí River.

• 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.

• Southern Beardless Tyrannulet Camptostoma obsoletum

  This small tyrannulet is recorded in wooded habitats in Argentina and Bolivia. An Argentine account gives a length of about 11 cm.

• 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.

• Mouse-grey Flycatcher Myiophobus crypterythrus

  This small flycatcher ranges from southwestern Colombia through western Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It is recorded in light woodland and shrubby openings.

• 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.