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• White-throated Pewee Contopus albogularis

  

  A French Guiana field report describes a small flycatcher with a dark-gray body and white throat. At Nouragues, one bird was observed chasing insects from a branch and returning to it.

• Black-capped Piprites Piprites pileata

  This small bird inhabits highland Atlantic Forest from Brazil to Argentina. The male has a black cap and nape with warm-toned upperparts; the female is duller.

• Sooty-crowned Flycatcher Myiarchus phaeocephalus

  A flycatcher recorded in northwestern Peru and the Marañón basin. PeruAves also lists Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia.

• Subtropical Doradito Pseudocolopteryx acutipennis

  This small tyrant flycatcher has been recorded in the Argentine Pampas. It is olive above and yellow below; males have narrow, pointed flight feathers.

• Southern Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus eximius

  The Southern Bristle Tyrant is a small forest flycatcher. A regional account from Misiones, northeastern Argentina, records an adult feeding recently fledged young.

• 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.

• Ornate Flycatcher Myiotriccus ornatus

  An Andean foothill and subtropical-forest flycatcher from Colombia through Peru. Tail color differs between Andean slopes.

• Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus

  It has a black eye-mask, yellow belly, and warm reddish-brown flashes in the wings. It inhabits open woodland and waterside areas from south Texas through Central and South America.

• Grenada Flycatcher Myiarchus nugator

  This flycatcher occurs on Grenada. It feeds on insects in forest, secondary growth, open woodland, and scrub; a song record is listed from Mt Hartmann Estate.

• 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.

• Northern Tropical Peewee Contopus bogotensis

  The Northern Tropical Peewee is a small flycatcher with a disjunct range in Central America and northern South America. It was separated from Southern Tropical Pewee and other former groups in the 2022 taxonomy.

• Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis

  The Gray Kingbird is a Caribbean bird with a gray back and white underside. Its dark eye mask and heavy bill stand out as it sallies from a perch to catch insects.

• Flammulated Bamboo Tyrant Hemitriccus flammulatus

  A small South American tyrant flycatcher. In Peru, records come from floodplain forest in the southeast and a separate central area with different forest cover.

• Ochraceous Pewee Contopus ochraceus

  This flycatcher occurs in the highlands of Costa Rica and far western Panama. It has a yellow-brown back, yellow belly, and pale wing bars, and catches flying insects from a perch.

• Yellow-bellied Elaenia Elaenia flavogaster

  This tyrant flycatcher has a bushy crest and yellowish lower belly. It catches insects by flying out from a perch and also eats fruit.

• 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.

• 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.

• Olivaceous Elaenia Elaenia mesoleuca

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and northern Uruguay. It closely resembles E. parvirostris, and voice is reported as a useful clue where field separation is difficult.

• 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.

• Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus mirandae

  This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northeastern Brazil. A 2025 study describes it in the humid understory of semideciduous forest and reports solitary insect foraging.