Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. No Data
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Costa Rica
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Regua, Brazil
Identification & Behavior: ~11.5 cm (4.5 in). The Yellow Tyrannulet has yellow-olive upperparts. The wing coverts are gray edged with yellowish on the tips and sides giving the impression of poorly defined wing bars. It has characteristic yellow lores and superciliary. It often shows a yellowish eye-ring. The underparts are yellow with an olive tinge. It forages in riverside scrub, bamboo thickets, and other types of young second growth.
Status: The Yellow Tyrannulet is uncommon to rare and local in Amazonia and along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Moscareta Amarilla.
Sub-species: Yellow Tyrannulet (Capsiempis flaveola cerula), Wetmore, 1939.
Meaning of Name: Capsiempis: Gr. kapto, kapso= to gulp down and empis, empidos= mosquito, gnat. flaveola: L. flavus= golden, yellow, flaveolus= yellowish.
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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.