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• 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.

• 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.

• Black-crowned Monjita Neoxolmis coronatus

  The Black-crowned Monjita is recorded in Argentina. Its black-and-white head and underside stand out; it often sits alone in an exposed place while searching for food.

• Rufous-breasted Flycatcher Leptopogon rufipectus

  It has a slate-grey crown, a mottled rufous face and dark olive upperparts. The species occurs in the Andes; a study in western Napo, Ecuador, recorded birds searching for insects under leaves from perches in the forest's middle levels.

• Little Ground Tyrant Syrtidicola fluviatilis

  The Little Ground Tyrant is a small flycatcher of broad river beaches and mudflats. In 2014, one bird was recorded on a sandbar of the Napo River in Ecuador; the paper considered it a non-breeding visitor.

• Maracaibo Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum viridanum

  A tiny tyrant-flycatcher restricted to arid northwestern Venezuela. It has subdued plumage and a long, pointed bill.

• Bran-colored Flycatcher Myiophobus fasciatus

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

• Common Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum cinereum

  The Common Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird. In Bolivia, records place it in lowland woodland and scrub, where it searches leaves for small animals.

• Noronha Elaenia Elaenia ridleyana

  The Noronha Elaenia occurs on the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil. It uses scrub, woodland, thickets, and gardens and eats insects and small fruit.

• Dark Pewee Contopus lugubris

  This pewee occurs in mountain forests of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama. It is dark gray and is recorded along forest edges and openings; it may be solitary outside the breeding period.

• Alagoas Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ceciliae

  A small flycatcher of the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. A foraging study often recorded birds in the canopy making sallies to take prey from foliage or the air.

• Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum poliocephalum

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in lowlands of southeastern Brazil. It is found in shrubs at forest edges, clearings, gardens, and parks.

• 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.

• 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.

• Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet Phylloscartes ventralis

  The Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet has a long tail and two pale wingbars. It searches for prey in middle and upper forest layers, changing its foraging behavior with forest structure.

• Wing-barred Piprites Piprites chloris

  A small forest bird of South America. It has a pale eye-ring and yellow forehead and throat, and searches for insects and some fruit in the upper middle levels and canopy.

• 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.

• Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens

  Its olive back, white eye-ring, and pale wing bars are useful clues. In mature forests of the eastern United States, it darts out to catch insects.

• Choco Tyrannulet Zimmerius albigularis

  This small bird occurs in humid forest in south-western Colombia and western Ecuador. It has olive upperparts, a white throat, and yellowish flanks and undertail.

• Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant Lophotriccus vitiosus

  This small flycatcher lives in wet lowland forest and swampy areas across the Amazon region and the Guianas. Its long, pale-edged black crest and yellow-green wing bars are distinctive.

• 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.