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Photo © by njlarsen
Jorupe reserve, Loja, SW Ecuador, June 8, 2019.
Myiopagis subplacens

Identification

13.5 cm.

  • Grey-brown crown
  • Large bright yellow coronal patch
  • Indistinctive whitish lores
  • Broad white supercilium extending downwards behind blackish auricular region
  • Narrow broken whitish eyering
  • Brownish-olive upperparts
  • Dusky wings with two indistinct to nearly absent yellowish wingbars
  • Greyish-olive tail
  • Grizzled whitish face
  • Flammulated pale greyish-white throat and breast
  • Pale yellow rest of underparts

Sexes similar, juveniles undescribed.

Distribution

Western Ecuador and northwestern Peru (essentially limited to Tumbesian areas).
An uncommon to fairly common restricted-range species. Has declined due to widespread deforestation.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

Habitat

Deciduous forest and semi-humid gallery forest and woodland. Also in secondary scrub but avoids humid forest.
Occurs in lowlands and foothills up to 1750 m.

Behaviour

Perches upright. An inconspicuous and quiet species.

Diet

Not well known.
Forages usually singly, seldom in mixed-species flocks.

Breeding

No information.

Movements

Presumably a resident species.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrived April 2014)

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