- Hylophilus flavipes
Identification
11·4–12 cm (4½-4¾ in)
- Olive-green upperparts
- Brighter wings and rump
- Olive-brown head
- Weak supercilium
- Yellowish eyering
- Yellow underparts
- Dark bill
- Pale legs
Distribution
Central and South America Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Tobago.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 7 subspecies[1]:
- H. f. viridiflavus:
- Tropical south-western Costa Rica and western Panama
- H. f. xuthus:
- Isla Coiba (Panama)
- H. f. flavipes:
- Caribbean coast of northern Colombia and Magdalena Valley
- H. f. melleus:
- North Colombia (eastern tip of Guajira Peninsula)
- H. f. galbanus:
- Tropical north-eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela
- H. f. acuticaudus:
- Tropical northern Venezuela and Isla Margarita
- H. f. insularis:
Habitat
Dry scrub and woodland. Dry and moist deciduous and semi-deciduous woodland and gallery forest.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet consists mostly of insects and spiders taken from the upper and middle levels of tree foliage. They may also eat berries, especially before migration.
Breeding
They build a deep cup nest suspended from a tree branch. The clutch contains 3 white eggs, marked with brown.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2018)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Scrub Greenlet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Scrub_Greenlet
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
