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• Riverside Tyrant Knipolegus orenocensis

  

  This flycatcher forages in young vegetation created by rivers. Males are black; females have gray upperparts and pale, streaked underparts.

• Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus orbitatus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in lowland forest in southeastern Brazil. It is about 11 cm long, with a white ring around each eye.

• 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.

• Jelski's Black Tyrant Knipolegus signatus

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded on the eastern Andean slope of Peru, foraging along humid montane forest edges and in scrub at 1,800–2,700 m.

• Tumbesian Tyrannulet Nesotriccus tumbezanus

  This small flycatcher ranges from southwestern Ecuador to northwestern Peru and uses dry scrub and open woodland.

• White Monjita Xolmis irupero

  The White Monjita is a South American tyrant flycatcher. A university species page describes the male as almost entirely white, with black eyes, wings, bill, and tail tip; it notes that females are greyer on the crown and back. The bird uses open grasslands and parks with scattered trees and often perches prominently.

• Patagonian Tyrant Colorhamphus parvirostris

  This small tyrant flycatcher is a permanent resident of northwest Patagonia. It uses wet forest and ecotonal woodland and catches flying insects from a perch.

• Bahia Tyrannulet Phylloscartes beckeri

  This tyrannulet is known from moist montane forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. Its olive upperparts, pale underparts and yellowish wing bars accompany a diet of arthropods.

• Rough-legged Tyrannulet Acrochordopus burmeisteri

  Current IOC-based taxonomy treats this small bird as Acrochordopus burmeisteri. It is recorded in Argentina, with olive upperparts and a yellow belly.

• River Tyrannulet Serpophaga hypoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives along rivers in the Amazon basin. It has a gray back and pale underparts, and catches flying insects over young river-edge vegetation.

• 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.

• White-winged Black Tyrant Knipolegus aterrimus

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in northern and central Argentina in open, dry country and shrub steppe. Males are black with conspicuous white wing patches.

• 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.

• Maranon Tyrannulet Nesotriccus maranonicus

  This small flycatcher lives in the dry Marañón Valley of northern Peru. It has two pale wing bars and feeds on insects and fruits such as mistletoe.

• 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.

• Yellow-browed Tyrant Satrapa icterophrys

  This tyrant flycatcher occurs widely in South America. It has olive upperparts and bright yellow underparts; a study on Carabajal Island in Argentina found both animal and plant material in stomach samples.

• Rufescent Flycatcher Myiophobus rufescens

  This flycatcher ranges along the western Andes from northern Peru to far northern Chile. It has two rufous wing bars and is recorded from forest edges to dry scrub.

• 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.

• Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central and South America. Its upperparts are olive and its underside yellow, with faint yellow wingbars. It is recorded at forest edges, in secondary woodland, and along gallery forests.

• 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.

• 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.