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- Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant Agriornis montanus
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0 This tyrant flycatcher occurs in dry Andean scrub and urban areas. It has gray-brown plumage, a black bill, and a mostly white tail.
- Golden-backed Mountain Tanager Cnemathraupis aureodorsalis
This large tanager is recorded in humid montane forest of Peru's eastern Andes at about 3,000–3,600 m. Its blue crown and golden back and underparts stand out.
- Reiser's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias reiseri
Reiser's Tyrannulet is recorded in Brazil and Paraguay. It has bright yellow-green upperparts and pale yellow underparts, and the field account reports it most often in gallery forest in Brazil's Cerrado.
- Western Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus aequinoctialis
This flycatcher lives in lowland and foothill forests in Central and South America. Its very broad bill and faint pale eye-ring help identify it.
- White-browed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albilora
The White-browed Ground-tyrant visits the high Andes seasonally and searches for food on the ground. Peruvian records are from April to October.
- Guianan Tyrannulet Zimmerius acer
The Guianan Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid lowland forest, foraging high in the canopy north of the Amazon. Its reported range includes eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil. A population south of the river may represent a different, undescribed species.
- Highland Elaenia Elaenia obscura
The Highland Elaenia inhabits mountain forest and forest edges on the eastern Andes. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and yellowish underparts, and searches the canopy for insects and berries.
- 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.
- Painted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum pictum
A small flycatcher of forests and edges in the Guianas, southern Venezuela, and northern Brazil.
- Streaked Flycatcher Myiodynastes maculatus
This tyrant flycatcher has streaking on its head and back. It makes short sallies from high perches in the canopy to catch insects and other food.
- Blue Mountain Elaenia Elaenia fallax
This tyrant flycatcher lives in Jamaica’s humid mountain forests. It has olive-brown upperparts and white wing-bars, and eats insects and fruit. Current references treat it separately from the former Greater Antillean Elaenia.
- Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura napensis
This small tyrant-flycatcher often holds up its long, white-tipped tail. Along Peru’s Amazon, Ucayali and other rivers, it forages in young vegetation growing on river-created sites.
- Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus capitalis
At about 9.5 cm, this is a tiny flycatcher of the Amazonian understory. Peru accounts report populations in northern lowland Amazonia and a separate central Peruvian area.
- Orange-eyed Flatbill Tolmomyias traylori
This small flycatcher was described from the western Amazon. The original paper records sites in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and says the limits of its range were not known.
- Russet-winged Spadebill Platyrinchus leucoryphus
The Russet-winged Spadebill is a small bird with a broad, flat bill. It lives in the Atlantic Forest.
- Inca Flycatcher Leptopogon taczanowskii
It occurs in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, at 1,700–2,700 m.
- Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus
This entry covers *Mionectes galbinus*, split from the broader *M. olivaceus*. The species account records it in moist lowland and montane forest from Central into northwestern South America.
- 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.
- Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens
This small tyrant flycatcher ranges through the Tumbesian region of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A broad white eyebrow and yellow crown patch help identify it.
- Greenish Tyrannulet Phyllomyias virescens
This small tyrannulet lives in humid evergreen forest in southeastern Brazil and nearby parts of South America. It is bright olive above, with dusky wings.
- Grey-hooded Attila Attila rufus
The Grey-hooded Attila is a forest bird of Brazil, with a grey head and rufous body.
- Chilean Elaenia Elaenia chilensis
This small South American flycatcher undertakes long-distance migration. It has been studied breeding in Patagonia, and research documents identification problems with similar Elaenias.
- 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.
- Slaty-capped Flycatcher Leptopogon superciliaris
This small flycatcher inhabits humid montane forest from Central America into the northern Andes. It forages below the canopy, catching insects in flight or from foliage.