Yungas Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus spodiops)

Identification & Behavior: ~11 cm (4.3 in). The Yungas Tody-Tyrant has greenish-brown upperparts and crown. The wing coverts and flight feathers are dusky and fringed with yellow forming two thin bars. The breast is olive-brown faintly streaked with olive. The rest of the underparts are whitish. The bill is black and the iris pale. It forages in the understory of humid montane forests and also in thick second growth. It is similar to the Flammulated Tody-Tyrant but is distinguished by having a pale iris, by having wing bars, and by ranging at higher elevations in its very restricted range in Peru.

Status: The Yungas Tody-Tyrant is known from a small area in extreme southeast Peru, in Puno, at elevations ranging between 800-1600 m. It also occurs in Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tirano-Todi de Yungas.

Sub-species: Yungas Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus spodiops), (Berlepsch), 1901.

Meaning of Name: Hemitriccus: Gr. hemi, hemisus= small, half and trikkus= unidentified small bird. spodiops: Gr. spodos= ashes ops, opos= eye, face. spodios= ash-colored, gray face.

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