Brujo Flycatcher

Small, yellowish-tan bird. Orange face is unique, but sometimes difficult to see; a more obvious field mark is its bright orange legs. Forages singly or in pairs in the canopy of secondary forest, especially along rivers. Does not usually join mixed-species flocks. Song is a series of very high notes, like a piculet but a little softer.

A small bird of montane forest. Gray underparts and face, paler to whitish on the throat and belly, black wing with white flash and black tail with white outer tail feathers and tips to the undertail. Note the white eye-ring which is broader at the back. Male has a dark, reddish back and the female olive green. Distinctive horizontal posture and twitching wings and tail. No other similar-sized bird in this habitat have a white patch in the wing. Song, a repeated, high-pitch, tinkling “twiddle-dee”.

A nocturnal inhabitant of open arid woodlands and thornscrub. Perches on ground from which it makes floppy and erratic flight upon its long wings in pursuit of insects. During the day it nestles in shaded leaf litter, wherein its cryptic coloration hides it well. Both the Hispaniolan Nightjar and Chuck-wills-widow are considerably larger, darker, and lack the Least Pauraque’s white terminal tail band. Calls include a low scratchy “wuck-wuck-wuck-wuck,” a low-pitched rising and trilled “tooooooeeeeeee,” and a similarly low-pitched trilled “oo-weee-oo,” with emphasis on middle syllable. The calls of the Hispaniolan Nightjar is a lower pitched “toooooeeeeeo.”