Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Brazil
Identification & Behavior: ~13 cm (5.1 in). The Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant has gray-brown upperparts. It has a gray crown and yellow superciliary. The wing coverts are black with a broad white wing bar. The underparts are mostly yellow. The tail is long, blackish, and graduated, tipped with white. It forages in early successional vegetation on river created habitats. The plumage pattern and the often cocked long tail tipped with white are unique in its range. Superficially resembles the much larger and darker Black-capped Donacobius.
Status: The Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant is uncommon along the Amazon, Ucayali, Marañon and Napo Rivers. It also occurs in Co, Ec, and Br.
Name in Spanish: Moscareta-Coleadora Menor.
Sub-species: Lesser Wagtail-Tyrant (Stigmatura napensis napensis), Chapman, 1926.
Meaning of Name: Stigmatura: Gr. stizo= to tattoo, stigma, stigmatos= spot. napensis: From or associated with the Napo Province, eastern Ecuador.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.