2 Monteverde (CR) birds (1 Viewer)

3 Monteverde (CR) birds

I have 3 unidentied bird species from the Monteverde area in Costa Rica.
All were seen in very early august.

I'm sure the first one (the one perching on the thick branch) is one of the many tyrant flycatches of Costa Rica, but I'm not sure if this photo alone is enough to tell the exact species.

The second one, the yellowish one, looks seed-eater-like to me, but I don't think it's actually a seed-eater. It looks diffferent from the euphonias I saw as well...I'm stuck.

The other ones, I really don't know. I suspect the photo's aren't good enough to tell. Anyway, my guess is plain antvireo, but I would like to hear some thoughts on this.

Hoping someone can make something of these not-to-great photos.

1 May be Olive-sidede Flycatcher and 2 must be a Auphonia but I have no books here to check.

Last two are very poor pics, I can't do them from such, someone might try, on bill shape, maybe Tennessee Warbler?

2 is a female euphonia, probably yellow-crowned euphonia based on range and lack of white on belly.

Tennessee warbler won't be in Monteverde in August, so suggest looking at resident warblers.

5 can't rule out male plain antvireo, but not definitive.

Yes, I did see yellow-crowned euphonias, so that is very possible. But for some reason this one looked different to me. must be me then

I considered Olive-sided Flycatcher. But this is such a difficult family to ID. Wish I had a better pic but this bird flew off before I could make any more zoomed in photo's or photo's from another angle.

ralph21 said:

Yes, I did see yellow-crowned euphonias, so that is very possible. But for some reason this one looked different to me. must be me then

I considered Olive-sided Flycatcher. But this is such a difficult family to ID. Wish I had a better pic but this bird flew off before I could make any more zoomed in photo's or photo's from another angle.

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Aside from physical ID features, it's behaving like Olive-sided the way it perches up like that.

I'd say 3-4 are juv Scarlet-thighed Dacnis