Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Carajas, Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil
Identification & Behavior: ~7 cm (2.7 in). The Snethlage’s Tody-Tyrant has gray-olive upperparts and crown. The wing coverts and flight feathers are edged with yellowish forming two thin wing bars. The throat and underparts are whitish with tinge of yellow and diffuse olive streaks. The bill is black and the iris is pale. It forages in thick understory of floodplain forest in Amazonia. It is similar to the closely related Zimmer Tody-Tyrant but is distinguished by favoring thick foliage in the understory of floodplain forest. The Zimmer’s Toddy-Tyrant forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of Terra Firme Forest. Also, see White-bellied Tody-Tyrant. These tody-tyrants are safely identified by voice.
Status: The Snethlage’s Tody-Tyrant is only known from a few sight records along the Yavari River in Loreto. It also occurs in Br and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Tirano-Todi de Snethlage.
Sub-species: Snethlage’s Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus minor pallens), (Todd), 1925.
Meaning of Name: Hemitriccus: Gr. hemi, hemisus= small, half and trikkus= unidentified small bird. minor: L. minor= smaller.
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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 03/01/2017.