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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pbjosh" data-source="post: 3609265" data-attributes="member: 117939">They are hard birds and I leave a lot of them unidentified rather than shooting from the hip. I have heard Lesser and SB together at the same time but not been confident of which one I was looking at, for instance <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />On the subject of Greenish/Pacific Elaenia, those are smaller birds with relatively longer tails, eyelines, typically crescents above and below the eyes instead of eyerings, and most importantly, no wing bars. I don't know if you've seen Greenish in the field but if you do you'll see that it structurally will recall something like an Empid or Tolmomyias - smaller and with a bit of a larger-eyed, "cuter" look. They also tend to be more forest interior / canopy birds and less in edge and scrub. Pacific is really similar to Greenish, but as a resident in the Tumbes ecoregion, nigh impossible for T&T <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />On your latest bird posted I agree SB/Lesser, but I'd be even more uncertain less likely to lean one way or the other than your first bird!Good luck and cheers,Josh</blockquote>

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