ABSTRACT
This chapter represents a wide variety of tropical families, genera, and species that are widespread across the Neotropics although species are drawn from the 35-year capture database of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located about 80 km north of Manaus, Amazonas, and Brazil. Each species account begins with the scientific name including subspecies at the BDFFP, if known, using the most up-to-date South American Checklist Committee taxonomy for species names and the Handbook to the Birds of the World subspecies designations. An important rule for determining the age and sex of birds is to determine a bird's age first and then its sex. This is because juvenile and other immature plumages can be female-like in males of sexually dichromatic species. A brood patch can be developed on the belly of birds when they are incubating eggs or brooding young nestlings.
