White-bellied Pygmy-Tyrant (Myiornis albiventris)

Identification & Behavior: ~7 cm (2.7 in). The White-bellied Pygmy-Tyrant has a yellow-olive mantle. It has two yellow wing bars and secondary flight feathers edged with yellow. The head is mostly gray with a prominent dusky ear patch and throat streaked with black. The underparts are whitish streaked with gray. The bill is black and the iris dark red. The legs are pink. It forages in the midstory and sub-canopy in humid montane forests. It is similar to the closely related Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant, but is distinguished by larger size and longer tail, by a dusky ear patch, and whitish underparts streaked with gray.

Status: The White-bellied Pygmy-Tyrant is fairly common but local in montane forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 350-1100 m. It also occurs in Bo.

Name in Spanish:Tirano-Pigmeo de Vientre Blanco.

Sub-species: White-bellied Pygmy-Tyrant (Myiornis albiventris), (Berlepsch and Stolzmann), 1894.

Meaning of Name: Myiornis: Gr. muia, muias= fly and ornis,ornithos= bird. albiventris: L. albus= white and venter, ventris= belly.

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