Tepui Elaenia - BirdForum Opus

Elaenia olivina

Identification

14 - 15 cm
Dark olive-brown on upperside, mostly yellow underside with olive wash on breast. Head is small and rounded with a white coronal stripe usually visible. Wings have two whitish wing bars as well as white edging on tertials while inner flight feathers are edged yellow.

Distribution

Found in southern Venezuela, adjacent Guyana and extreme northern Brazil

Taxonomy

Tepui Elaenia has been split from Sierran Elaenia

Subspecies

• E. p. davidwillardi in the Tepuis of southern Venezuela
• E. p. olivina in the Tepuis of southern Venezuela, adjacent Guyana and extreme northern Brazil

Habitat

Wet mountain areas (tepuis) dominated by forest, edges, high elevation scrub and second growth.

Behaviour

Feeds on insects and fruit

Vocalisation

Song is describes as irregular sharp notes, and call as pfeééu.

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/
2. 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/
3. del Hoyo, J., N. Collar, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Tepui Elaenia (Elaenia olivina), 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.sieela2.01

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Tepui Elaenia. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Tepui_Elaenia

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