Alternative name: Slender-billed Inezia
- Inezia tenuirostris
Identification
9 cm. A tiny, nondescript tyrannulet from the desert.
- Narrow white eyering and supercilium
- Greyish-olive crown and upperparts
- Dusky wing with two thin wingbars and dull white outer edges of inner remiges
- Dusky olive tail
- Whitish face and throat
- Dingy greyish white breast and belly with pale yellow tinge on belly and undertail-coverts
- Short needle-like bill
- Eye dark brown
Sexes similar. Juveniles not described.
Similar species
Pale-tipped Tyrannulet has pale greyish to yellowish-white eye (but brown in juveniles).
Distribution
Arid northeast of Colombia to northwestern Venezuela (Zulia, Falcón and north Lara).
A fairly common to common restricted-range species.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Habitat
Dry forests and shrubland. Also in gardens surrounded by desert and mangrove edges.
Occurs from sea-level up to 300 m, locally up to 800 m.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on insects. Also recorded to take berries and small fruits.
Usually seen in pairs or alone, rarely in mixed-species flocks. Forages actively in dense shrub, often cocking slightly its tail. Hover-gleans and perch-gleans in foliage and on twigs, similar to a vireo.
Breeding
No information.
Movements
This is a resident species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Fitzpatrick, J. W. (2020). Slender-billed Tyrannulet (Inezia tenuirostris), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.slbtyr1.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Slender-billed Tyrannulet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Slender-billed_Tyrannulet
External Links
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