Brazil - A few birds from Minas Gerais June 2019 (1 Viewer)

[Liebzi]

Questions to a few birds from a trip to Minas Gerais, hope you guys can help clear a few of them.

Pic 1 - Flying pipit from Lapinha de Serra, just need a second opinion. I feel it has to be Hellmayers, it is only yellowish that can be confused here. I also got a photo of it standing if that is needed.

Pic 2 - Crested Black Tyrant - or at least I think so. The crest is not super long, which could be confused ved Velvety Black Tyrant with the wind helping the crest stand a bit. I'm pretty sure it has to be Crested though.

Pic 3 - Hyacinth Visorbearer From Lapinha de Serra 1100-1200 m elevation. I'm curious if there is any field marks that could identify this to Ssp level, I feel it must be nominate.

Pic 4 and 5 - Scaled Woodcreeper from Lapa Grande where 2 Ssp occours I think. Identified back then as the ssp. wagleri one, but looking at photos now I feel the crown is not rusty-rufous enough. What do you think?

Pic 6 - Dry-forest Sabrewing also from Lapa Grande. I'm just not sure if Sombre Hummingbird can be ruled out from this photo, shape just feel wrong for Sombre. A friend of mine might have a photo as well.

 

[THE_FERN]

Hellmayr's: streaks where present on yellowish are heavier
Crested black: black bill
Visor-bearer: Wikipedia says sspp weakly differentiated and gives criteria
Sombre hummingbird: wings reach tail top and increasing exposure shows no undertail white

 

[Liebzi]

This is the image of my friend of

Hellmayr's: streaks where present on yellowish are heavier
Crested black: black bill
Visor-bearer: Wikipedia says sspp weakly differentiated and gives criteria
Sombre hummingbird: wings reach tail top and increasing exposure shows no undertail white

This is the image of my friend of your suggestion of Sombre Hummingbird. It looks kind of whitish on the tail which should rule out Sombre no?

 

[THE_FERN]

This is the image of my friend of

This is the image of my friend of your suggestion of Sombre Hummingbird. It looks kind of whitish on the tail which should rule out Sombre no?

That one is definitely the sabrewing. Wings fall short of tail, distal part of tail underside is clearly white. I suspect the shape and size of the white post ocular spot differs from sombre but haven't checked this.

(I only manipulated the original image on my phone: it doesn't have a proper image editor)

The wing character depends on the aspect and to an extent how the bird is holding its wings. With good views sombre wing tips should be about at tail tip whilst sabre wing's fall short

 

[Liebzi]

Okay, thank you for this comment. Crazy how photos can change the feelings!

Do you have any thoughts on the Woodcrepper, if its a waglers or not...