Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum)

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

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manu National Park, Peru

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil


Identification & Behavior: ~10 cm (4 in). The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher has yellow underparts with black streaks on the throat and breast, white loral spots, and yellow-greenish mantle (chrysocrotaphum) or pure yellow underparts and mantle and no white loral spots (neglectum). Both forms have a black crown, a black mask through the eye, and a broad yellow eye-brow. The iris is dark. The bill is black. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of mostly floodplain forest in Amazonia. It is more likely to overlap with the Spotted Tody-Flycatcher but favors very different habitat types. Also, see Common Tody-flycatcher.

Status: The Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is uncommon and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 1000 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Espatulilla de Ceja Amarilla.

Sub-species: Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum guttatum), Pelzeln, 1868.  Colombia (S from W Meta and Guainía) and NW Brazil S to E Ecuador and extreme NE Peru (NE Loreto).
(Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum chrysocrotaphum), Strickland, 1850.  N Peru and W Brazil (E to Tefé, in C Amazonas).
(Todirostrum chrysocrotaphum neglectum), Carriker, 1932.  E Peru, SW Brazil, and N Bolivia.

Meaning of Name: Todirostrum: tody= one that resembles a member of the genus Todus Brisson 1760 and rostrum= beak. chrysocrotaphum: Gr. khrusos= gold krotaphos= sides of the head.

See more of the Family Tyrannidae  peru aves

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.