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• Greater Pewee Contopus pertinax

  

  The Greater Pewee occurs widely in Mexico and breeds in mountain forests in Arizona and locally in western New Mexico. In the U.S. it is mainly a summer bird.

• Fulvous-crowned Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus meloryphus

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in South America. It has a partly concealed tawny crown patch and searches for insects in low scrub.

• Sad Flycatcher Myiarchus barbirostris

  The Sad Flycatcher lives in Jamaican woodland and forest edges, catching insects in short flights from a perch.

• White-throated Flycatcher Empidonax albigularis

  This small flycatcher is identified by its whitish throat and pale wingbars. It uses marshes and semi-open areas with shrubs, and winters mainly in lowland marshes.

• Panama Tyrannulet Phylloscartes flavovirens

  This small tyrannulet is locally distributed in Panama. It searches for arthropods in the forest canopy and is recorded as a year-round resident.

• American Grey Flycatcher Empidonax wrightii

  This small flycatcher lives in dry highland shrublands and open woods, where it waits for insects from a perch. Its slow downward tail dip helps distinguish it from similar flycatchers.

• Coopmans's Elaenia Elaenia brachyptera

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in Andean foothills from southwestern Colombia into Ecuador. Literature describes semi-open woodland, river edges, and clearings as habitat; a northeastern Ecuador study recorded nests in saplings beside rivers.

• Flammulated Flycatcher Ramphotrigon flammulatum

  This flycatcher lives in brush and thorn forest from lowlands into foothills of western Mexico. It can be hard to notice while quiet; a 2013 recording from Jalisco captured a male singing from a tree along a trail.

• Large Elaenia Elaenia spectabilis

  This South American flycatcher has three white wing bars and a weak or absent crest. In Bolivia it is recorded in woodland, second growth and forest edges, where it takes insects and fruit.

• Loja Tyrannulet Zimmerius flavidifrons

  This small bird occurs in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A western Ecuador field guide places it in humid and deciduous foothill and subtropical forests, with gray-toned upperparts and faint yellow wing markings. Checklists differ on whether this regional form is a species or a subspecies, so the account keeps to its local range.

• Slender-footed Tyrannulet Zimmerius gracilipes

  The Slender-footed Tyrannulet is a small flycatcher of South America. In the current species treatment, the Guianan Tyrannulet, Zimmerius acer, is separate and is not included here. This species lives in moist lowland forest and on tepuis, feeding on insects and small fruits.

• Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus

  The Great Crested Flycatcher hunts insects high in trees and is marked by reddish-brown accents and a yellow belly.

• Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus calopterus

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is about 9.5 cm long. It forages in dense understory at forest edges and in second growth; in northern Peru it is recorded along the Andean foothills up to about 600 m.

• Dusky-tailed Flatbill Ramphotrigon fuscicauda

  This 15–17 cm flycatcher uses forest bamboo thickets and feeds on invertebrates. Sound recordings include sites in Peru’s Manu region.

• Golden-faced Tyrannulet Zimmerius chrysops

  This small tyrant flycatcher forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. Its bright yellow face contrasts with its gray-olive head and back.

• Unadorned Flycatcher Myiophobus inornatus

  A small flycatcher of the eastern Andes, from southeastern Peru to northern Bolivia.

• Painted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum pictum

  A small flycatcher of forests and edges in the Guianas, southern Venezuela, and northern Brazil.

• Hispaniolan Pewee Contopus hispaniolensis

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in forests on Hispaniola. Its upperparts are dark grayish-olive and its throat is gray. It may sally from a perch to catch flying insects and return to the perch.

• Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi

  The Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant was observed at several sites in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Its head and back range from brown to olive, while the throat and belly are pale yellow. The study describes foraging in forest edges and shaded secondary growth.

• Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus rufigularis

  The Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant is a small bird with a buff throat, olive-green upperparts, and a pale belly. It lives in dry tropical and tropical montane forests and catches invertebrates in bushes.

• 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.