- Capsiempis flaveola
Identification
10-11cm
- Yellow underparts
- Yellow-olive upperparts
- Brownish wings
- Two broad yellow wing-bars
- Yellow edges to the wings
- Long yellow supercilium
- Brown tail
Distribution
Central and South America
Central America: Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina
Taxonomy
Subspecies
This is a polytypic species consisting of 5 subspecies[1]:
- C. f. semiflava:
- C. f. leucophrys:
- C. f. cerula:
- C. f. magnirostris:
- South-western Ecuador (Pichincha to El Oro)
- C. f. flaveola:
An additional subspecies amazona is not recognised by most authorities[2].
Habitat
Atlantic forest, humid second growth; shrubby areas at the edge of woodland and in forest clearings, especially where there is bamboo.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes insects, spiders and small berries.
Breeding
It builds a cup nest from plant fibre and grass blades, decorated outside with moss, placed in a tree, shrub, or maize plant. The 2 white eggs, may have very light rufous speckles.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow Tyrannulet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow_Tyrannulet
