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Yellow-crowned Elaenia - BirdForum Opus

Photo by amesta
Las piedras river, Peru, June 2014
Myiopagis flavivertex

Identification

12·5–13 cm

  • Olive upper parts
  • Brownish-olive crown
  • Bright yellow coronal patch (generally partially concealed)
  • Whitish loral spot and supercilium
  • Yellow under parts

Distribution

South America: found in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Swampy and flooded forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of insects. They generally sit upright on a perch.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2015)

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