Order: Passeriformes | Family: Vireonidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult \ Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Ecuador
Age: Adult \ Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Ecuador
Age: Adult \ Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Ecuador
Age: Adult \ Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonia, Ecuador
Status: The Tawny-crowned Greenlet is uncommon and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 1200 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Verdillo de Corona Leonada.
Sub-species: Tawny-crowned Greenlet Tunchiornis ochraceiceps ferrugineifrons), P. L. Sclater, 1862. SE Venezuela, Amazonas, Bolívar except for E and adjacent W Guyana, SE & E Colombia (S from Meta) and E Ecuador (E of Andes), NE Peru and NW Brazil (Roraima W of R Negro, S to R Juruá and R Purús).
(Tunchiornis ochraceiceps viridior), (Todd), 1929. S Peru and N Bolivia (E to Santa Cruz).
Meaning of Name: Tunchiornis: Tunche or Tunchi= Peruvian myth. El Tunche is the wondering soul of the dead or whistling guardian spirit of the rainforests; ornis, ornithos= bird. ochraceiceps: Gr. okhra= yellow ochre and caput, capitis, ceps = head, capped.
Formerly known as Hylophilus ochraceiceps (2018).

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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.