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This species is found east of the Andes and inhabits open savanna areas. It is the smallest nightjar in the country. His name Chordeiles means that he dances at sunset and derives from the Greek roots khoreia = dance and deile = sunset. Its epithet pusillus derives from Latin and means tiny or very small.

The white-eyed tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus zosterops) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers.It is found in the northern Amazon Basin of Brazil and the Guianas of French Guiana, Suriname, and southeast Guyana; also Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.It is a small short-tailed bird, medium grayish and olive-greenish with fleckings of deep black and white on its wings. It has a short sharp stout black bill, and is named for its narrow white eye-ring and its white eyes. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. In the Amazon Basin it is only found north of the Amazon River; in Venezuela it is in the headwaters of the Orinoco River in the south.

It is the only species of the genus. It is found to the east of the Andes and its optimal breeding habitat is open areas with sandy soils and scattered shrubs surrounded by forest. Its name Chelidoptera means swallow wings and derives from the Greek roots khelidon = swallow and ptera = wings. Its tenebrous epithet derives from the Latin tenebrosus = dark, shady.

ENDEMIC species from Colombia, until recently considered conspecific with A. torquatus. Like other species of the genus, it is a bird with semi-terrestrial habits that remains solitary or in pairs. Its name Arremon derives from the Greek root arrhemon = silent and its epithet basilicus derives from Latin and means magnificent.

It is the species of the genus with the most distinctive color pattern. Its name Synallaxis comes from the Greek sunallaxis = to change, which was assigned by Vieillot (1818) referring to characters that merited recognition as a different gender. His epithet candei was established in honor of the French explorer in South America, Antoine Marie Ferdinand Maussion de Candé.

The pale-eyed pygmy tyrant (Atalotriccus pilaris) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, Tyrannidae, where it makes up the monotypic genus Atalotriccus.
It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Panama, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.