Spectacled Tyrannulet - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by NJLarsen
Above Minca, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 19 August 2023

Identification

12 cm

Olive upperside.
Most of wing dusky, primaries blackish. Greater coverts, secondaries and outer primaries edged in bright yellow producing a pattern of one yellowish and one black wedge on the flight feathers and no wing bars.
head with brownish grey crown and auriculars, black eye-line, yellowish-white throat, supercilium and semi-arch under the eye.
Underside pale with indistinct light grey streaking.

Northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela

This is one of the daughter species from the former Paltry Tyrannulet

Two subspecies are recognized^[1].

Z. i. tamae
- northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela, in the Santa Marta Mountains, the Sierra de Perijá , and the Tamá massif; the population in the Santa Martas and the Perijá may be an undescribed subspecies, distinct from "true" tamae of the Tamá region in Norte de Santander, Colombia and immediately adjacent Táchira, Venezuela
Z. i. improbus
- Andes of northwestern Venezuela (eastern Táchira to Trujillo)

Mid elevation forests, edges, and more open areas with some trees.

Insects and fruit but details are lacking. Food is mainly obtained in mid to upper canopy

2-5 whistles that are slightly descending.

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/
Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v11.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
Jones, A. W. (2020). Spectacled Tyrannulet (Zimmerius improbus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.paltyr4.01

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Spectacled Tyrannulet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Spectacled_Tyrannulet

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