Cliff Flycatcher
Hirundinea ferruginea
The cliff flycatcher is 15.5 to 18.5 cm (6.1 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 21 to 42 g (0.74 to 1.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies H. f. ferruginea have a brown crown and sides of the head, grayish forehead and ear coverts, a whitish supercilium, and a dark line through the eye. Their upperparts are brown. Their primary wing coverts are blackish brown with bright orange bases. Their secondary coverts and tertials are dark brown. Their primaries and secondaries are mostly orange with dark brown tips that extend up the outer webs of most of them. Voice: The "cliff" and "swallow" groups of the cliff flycatcher have different vocalizations. The northern and Andean "cliff" flycatchers sing "a two note ti-wee or ki-lee". They also make "single pip calls". The southern "swallow" flycatchers sing a "loose series of short phrases uttered at a leisurely pace a two note prrr-wheu.
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Small-billed Elaenia
Elaenia parvirostris
The small-billed elaenia is 13 to 15 cm (5.1 to 5.9 in) long. It is a small elaenia without a crest. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a bright olive-green crown with a partially visible white stripe in the middle. They have whitish lores and a thin but distinct white eyering. Their upperparts are bright olive-green. Their wings are dusky with whitish tips on the coverts that show as three wing bars. Their flight feathers have narrow whitish edges. Their tail is dusky. Voice: The small-billed elaenia's dawn song is "a stuttering, deep, gravelly PEE-jip-p'p'jooee?". It has also been written as a "hurried, strong 'Wee-dr-dee-wuh' ". It is mostly silent on its wintering grounds but does make "a soft 'cheeu' " call there.
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