From Opus

Photo by Steve G
Photo taken: Arnos Vale, Tobago.

Tolmomyias flaviventris

Includes Olive-faced Flatbill and Ochre-lored Flatbill

[edit] Identification

12.7 cm. Olive green head and upperparts, darker, yellow-edged, wing and tail, two yellow wing bars, golden yellow throat, breast and eye-ring, ochreous lores, dull yellow abdomen, bill is flattened laterally, and is black above and white below. Sexes are similar.

[edit] Distribution

Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Trinidad and Tobago.

[edit] Taxonomy

Birds from the far south of the range are smaller and sometimes split as the Olive-faced Flatbill, T. viridiceps.

[edit] Habitat

Upper levels of forests, secondary growth and the edges of mangrove swamps.

[edit] Behaviour

It builds a bottle shaped nest from plant material which is suspended from a branch. 2-3 creamy white eggs, marked with violet at the larger end, are laid. The eggs are incubated by the female for 17 days.

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