Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant - BirdForum Opus

Nominate subspecies
Photo by Steve Sanchez
Tingo Maria National Park, Peru, July 2015

Myiornis ecaudatus

Identification

6·5 cm (2½ in); slender bill, virtually no tail

• Grey head with blackish lores
• White "spectacles"
• Bright olive-green back
• Black wings and tail
• Yellowish underparts
• Pale olive marks on chest and flanks
• Yellow edges to inner flight feathers
  

The sexes are similar

Distribution

Photo by Marcelo Padua
Sao Jose do Rio Claro, Brazil

Northern and central South America: Colombia and Trinidad to the Guianas, and Amazonian areas in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• M.e. miserabilis:

• Eastern Colombia to the Guianas and northern Brazil; winters to Trinidad

• M.e. ecaudatus:

• Amazonian Brazil to eastern Ecuador, Peru and northern Bolivia

Habitat

Tall humid forests, clearings and edges.

Behaviour

Breeding

They build a ball shaped nest from moss and fibre it has a side entrance. The clutch consists of 2 white eggs with brownish or cinnamon spots.

Diet

The diet consists almost entirely of insects usually foraged from high in the canopy.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2015)
4. Avibirds

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Short-tailed_Pygmy_Tyrant

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