Alternative name: Johannes's Pygmy-Tyrant
- Hemitriccus iohannis
Identification
11 cm.
- Uniform bright olive crown and upperparts
- Brownish lores and ocular area, sometimes with a white supraloral spot
- Dusky olive wings with indistinct yellow edges of remiges and two indistinct yellow wingbars
- Whitish throat with fine black streaks
- Pale yellow underparts with blurry streaking, smudged olive breast side and flanks
Sexes similar.
Distribution
From southeast Colombia to Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia and west Amazonian Brazil.
Rare to locally fairly common.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Formerly considered conspecific with Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant.
Habitat
Found in humid tropical secondary growth and in riparian woodland and brush. Likes areas with vine tangles or dense shrubby growth.
Occurs up to 600 m.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on arthropods.
Usually forages alone, in pairs or in small family groups. Does normally not follow mixed-species flocks.
Makes short upward strikes from its perch to catch prey from underside of leaves.
Breeding
Birds with enlarged gonads found from late July to late October in southeast Peru. No other information available.
Movements
This is a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2016)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Johannes's Tody-Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Johannes%27s_Tody-Tyrant
