Brown-breasted Pygmy Tyrant - BirdForum Opus

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Photograph by Lcverissimo
Intervales State Park, Ribeirão Grande, SP, Brazil, June 2017

Alternative name: Brown-breasted Bamboo Tyrant

Hemitriccus obsoletus

Identification

11 cm (4¼ in)

• Olive-brown
• Buffy eye-ring
• Buffy throat and breast

Distribution

Photo by arthurgrosset
Intervales State Park, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 2004

South America: found in Brazil.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• H. o. obsoletus:

• Mountains of south-eastern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo)

• H. o. zimmeri:

• Mountains of south-eastern Brazil (Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul)

Habitat

Atlantic Rain Forest with stands of bamboo.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of insects, which they forage for in bamboo thickets, generally around 1-3 m from the ground.

Breeding

They construct a globular ball nest about 17.5cm high and 16cm wide. It has a domed roof.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Arthur Grosset
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Sept 2017)

• List of references

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