Zimmer’s Tody Tyrant (Hemitriccus minimus)

Identification & Behavior: ~10 cm (4 in). The Zimmer’s Tody-Tyrant has yellow-olive upperparts and crown. The wing coverts and flight feathers are margined with yellow showing two yellow wing bars. The underparts are yellowish streaked with diffuse olive streaks. The bill is black and the iris pale. It forages in the mid and sub-canopy of mature Terra-Firme forest. It is similar to the closely related Snethlage’s Tody-Tyrant but is distinguished by having better defined yellowish wing bars and by foraging high in the canopy and subcanopy of Terra Firme forest.

Status: The Zimmer’s Tody-Tyrant is uncommon in a relatively small range encompassing an area north and south of the Amazon River in Loreto. It also occurs in Br and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tirano-Todi de Zimmer.

Sub-species: Zimmer’s Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus minimus), (Todd), 1925.

Meaning of Name: Hemitriccus: Gr. hemi, hemisus= small, half and trikkos= unidentified small bird. minimus: L. minimus= smallest, least.

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