Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil

sulphury_flycatcher
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil

sulphury_flycatcher
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil

Sulphury-flycatcher
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonas, Brazil


Identification & Behavior: ~20 cm (7.8 in). The Sulphury Flycatcher has olive-brown upperparts, a gray head, and a poorly defined superciliary. It has a dingy whitish throat and upper breast faintly streaked with dusky. The rest of the underparts are bright yellow. It forages exclusively in the canopy of Mauritia flexuosa Palm stands. It is similar to the Tropical Kingbird and the Dusky-chested Flycatcher, but none of these flycatchers closely associates with the interior of Mauritia Palm stands.

Status: The Sulphury Flycatcher is widespread in Amazonia but is rare and local. It is known to range up to 1200 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Mosquero Azufrado.

Sub-species: Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea), (Spix), 1825.

Meaning of Name: Tyrannopsis: After the genus Tyrannus de Lacépède, 1799, and Gr. opsis= appearance, one that resembles. sulphurea: L. sulphur, sulphuris= sulphur, sulphureus.

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Distribution Map
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References:

    • 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.