Sooty-headed Tyrannulet - BirdForum Opus

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Photo by Oregonian
Location: Jardin, Antioquia, Colombia

Phyllomyias griseiceps

Distribution

Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and very northernmost Brazil.

Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized^[1].

• P. g. griseiceps
  • western Ecuador (Esmeraldas south to El Oro and western Loja)
• P. g. cristatus
  • eastern Panama (Darién) and northwestern Colombia (northwestern Chocó); patchily in northern Colombia (Santa Marta region south to the upper Magdalena Valley) east to northern Venezuela (Zulia and northern Táchira to Sucre and Monagas)
• P. g. caucae
  • west central Colombia (upper Cauca Valley)
• P. g. pallidiceps
  • southeastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and locally in northern Brazil; eastern Ecuador south to southern Peru

Habitat

Forests.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Sooty-headed Tyrannulet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 8 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sooty-headed_Tyrannulet

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