Gray-crowned Flatbill - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Francisco Paludo
Presidente Figueiredo, AM, Brazil, July 2017

Alternative name: Gray-crowned Flycatcher

Tolmomyias poliocephalus

Identification

12 cm (4¾ in)

• Olive-green upperparts
• Grey crown and nape
• Whitish supraloral stripe
• Faint eye-ring

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

Taxonomy

Subspecies

• T. p. poliocephalus:

• South-eastern Colombia to eastern Peru, southern Venezuela and western Amazonian Brazil

• T. p. klagesi:

• Tropical eastern Venezuela (northern Amazonas to Delta Amacuro)

• T. p. sclateri:

• Tropical Guianas, Amazonian and eastern Brazil and north-western Bolivia

Habitat

Humid forest and forest edges.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of insects, small fruits and berries.

Breeding

Their nest is a suspended bag, placed about 2-25 m from the ground.

References

1. Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2024. IOC World Bird List (v 14.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.14.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
3. Avibase
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Aug 2016)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Gray-crowned Flatbill. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gray-crowned_Flatbill

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