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• 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.

• Crowned Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix frontalis

  This small Andean bird occurs in forest and scrub. The central Peru-to-Bolivia population has been proposed as a separate species.

• Cinnamon Neopipo Neopipo cinnamomea

  This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid Andean foothill forest and stunted forest on white sand in the Peruvian Amazon. It is usually solitary in the understory and moves slowly.

• Grey-breasted Flycatcher Lathrotriccus griseipectus

  This flycatcher lives in forest understory from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, whitish belly, and white wingbars.

• Apical Flycatcher Myiarchus apicalis

  This flycatcher is endemic to Colombia. It has a bushy crest and pale tips to its tail feathers. It feeds on insects and small fruits in dry-valley scrub and woodland.

• Jamaican Pewee Contopus pallidus

  This small woodland bird is endemic to Jamaica. It catches insects by flying out from exposed perches in the middle levels of the forest and may flick its tail once when it lands.

• Brownish Elaenia Elaenia pelzelni

  This flycatcher is restricted to riverine habitats in the Amazon basin, especially islands and forest edges along the Amazon and Napo rivers. It is often associated with early growth that includes Cecropia trees.

• Tumbes Tyrant Tumbezia salvini

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the Tumbesian region of northwestern Peru and southern Ecuador. Its distribution is closely associated with lowland dry forest and the western Andean foothills.

• Velvety Black Tyrant Knipolegus nigerrimus

  An eastern Brazilian tyrant flycatcher found in open grassy and rocky habitats, as well as dry forest. Its range has two separated populations.

• Small-headed Elaenia Elaenia sordida

  Elaenia sordida is a small-headed, crestless elaenia. A 2022 study in northeastern Argentina recorded foraging in scrub and secondary forest, including fruit feeding.

• Ornate Flycatcher Myiotriccus ornatus

  An Andean foothill and subtropical-forest flycatcher from Colombia through Peru. Tail color differs between Andean slopes.

• 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.

• Rufous-crowned Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus ruficeps

  This tiny flycatcher, about 9.5 cm long, has a rufous crown, pale cheeks edged in black and a yellow underside. It searches for insects in the understorey of humid montane forest and tall second growth.

• Warbling Doradito Pseudocolopteryx flaviventris

  This small tyrant flycatcher moves in short flights through reeds and searches low vegetation for food. The Argentine national account records it from the north of the country south to Chubut.

• Southern Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus eximius

  The Southern Bristle Tyrant is a small forest flycatcher. A regional account from Misiones, northeastern Argentina, records an adult feeding recently fledged young.

• Swainson's Flycatcher Myiarchus swainsoni

  This flycatcher was documented in a study of subtropical Atlantic Forest in southeastern Paraguay. At the study site it used forest, forest edges, and riparian areas.

• Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaius

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges from Mexico through much of South America. It uses forest edges and open or cultivated places with tall trees, often staying high in the canopy.

• White-eyed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus zosterops

  Olive upperparts, a pale iris, and two narrow wing bars help identify this small tyrant flycatcher. It forages in the understory and midstory inside forest.

• Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus mirandae

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northeastern Brazil. A 2025 study describes it in the humid understory of semideciduous forest and reports solitary insect foraging.

• Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola rufivertex

  This ground-tyrant occurs in the Peruvian Andes. The Peru Aves account describes grayish upperparts, a whitish-gray underside, a white forehead, and a rusty patch on the nape; it forages in short dry grass and other dry habitats.

• Olive-chested Flycatcher Myiophobus cryptoxanthus

  The Olive-chested Flycatcher is a small bird recorded on the eastern Andean slopes of northern Peru and Ecuador. It feeds alone in shrubs at forest edges and in secondary growth.

• Black-and-white Monjita Heteroxolmis dominicana

  This tyrant flycatcher uses wetlands and damp grasslands. A BirdLife regional record lists it at Serranías del Este in eastern Uruguay; males and females differ in plumage.

• Oustalet's Tyrannulet Phylloscartes oustaleti

  A small tyrannulet of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It uses the canopy and subcanopy and occurs in mixed-species flocks.

• Golden-bellied Flycatcher Myiodynastes hemichrysus

  This flycatcher is found in the montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Its yellow underparts and dark stripe between the throat and lower cheek are distinctive. It eats fruit and insects and is usually seen in pairs or small family groups.