Meet the world’s animals.
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- Northern Bentbill Oncostoma cinereigulare
Photo: Dominic Sherony · Dominic Sherony / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 · CC BY-SA 2.0 This small flycatcher occurs in Central American forest. At Guatemala's Laguna del Tigre National Park, it appears regularly in annual bird counts.
- Plain-crested Elaenia Elaenia cristata
This tyrant flycatcher uses open savanna and semi-open areas with scattered trees and shrubs. It has a tall crest; in Peru it is known from localized sites in Cusco and Madre de Dios.
- 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.
- Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Nesotriccus murinus
This small flycatcher ranges broadly from Central into South America, using scrub and wooded habitats. This account excludes populations assigned to the separately recognized Tumbesian and Marañón tyrannulets.
- Ticking Doradito Pseudocolopteryx citreola
The Ticking Doradito breeds in central Chile and western Argentina, then moves north to Bolivia in winter.
- Streak-throated Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes striaticollis
This Andean flycatcher occurs at high elevations. It searches for insects and small vertebrates in scrub and along forest edges.
- Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus senex
A small tyrant flycatcher recorded in Amazonas and Rondônia, Brazil. It inhabits low, stunted forest near blackwater rivers and white-sand woodland.
- Olive Tufted Flycatcher Mitrephanes olivaceus
This small flycatcher is mostly olive and lives in montane forest on the eastern slope of the Andes. It forages at forest openings in the canopy and subcanopy.
- Giant Kingbird Tyrannus cubensis
This large tyrant flycatcher has a massive black bill and orange crown feathers that may be raised in display. Its range is restricted to forested parts of Cuba.