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Vireo? Malecon of San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia (1 Viewer)

pandachris

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Hi. I've been looking through our holiday snaps and this one has confused me. The only vireo that we recorded that day was Red-eyed (which these aren't) and we had a couple of Tyrannulets as well. The photo was taken on 6th August 2024. Any ideas?

I'm away for a few days so please don't think me ill-mannered if I'm slow to respond to any queries or IDs.
 

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It's clearly a Flycatcher.

First impression is indeed Mouse-colored Tyrannulet or Fuscous Flycatcher. It's been nearly 10 years since I've birded in CO and I've not looked at ranges / eBird occurence for the area to check which makes more sense nor have I looked at subspp of both to match what would occur in that
 
That looks a good call, Bewick, and a species that we did not identify at the time.We always struggle with vireos so assume that anything in that size range that we can't ID is probably one :) It takes me up to 399 species for Colombia.
 
@pbjosh - both Fuscous Flycatcher and Mouse-colored Tyrannulet can occur around San Jose del Guaviare, according to eBird. I have no prior experience of either. Looking at the field guide and other photos on-line I'm now thinking more likely Fuscous but also back to 398 species as I can't be sure.
 
@pbjosh - both Fuscous Flycatcher and Mouse-colored Tyrannulet can occur around San Jose del Guaviare, according to eBird. I have no prior experience of either. Looking at the field guide and other photos on-line I'm now thinking more likely Fuscous but also back to 398 species as I can't be sure.
No it's a tyrannulet. So mouse-coloured.
 

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