Lesser Greenlet (Hylophilus decurtatus)

Identification & Behavior: ~10 cm (4 in). The Lesser Greenlet has olive upperparts with a gray cap and nape. The throat and breast are gray grading to whitish towards the center of the underparts. It has yellow on the sides of the breast and flanks. The iris is dark. The bill is brown. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of humid and semideciduous forest in extreme northwest Peru in Tumbes.  It is similar to the Dusky-capped Greenlet but their ranges do not overlap.

Status: The Lesser Greenlet is fairly common but very local found only in the humid and semi-deciduous forests of Tumbes where it is known to range up to 700 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co and Ec.

Name in Spanish: Verdillo Menor.

Sub-species: Lesser Greenlet (Hylophilus decurtatus minor), Berlepsch and Taczanowski, 1884.

Meaning of Name: Hylophilus: Gr. hule= woodland, forest and philos= lover. decurtatus: L. curtus= short; decurtatus= mutilated, cut off.

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