Nominate subspecies
Photo © by Wilson Diaz
Cordillera Escalera Reserve, San Martin, Peru, 27 January 2018
Photo © by Wilson Diaz
Cordillera Escalera Reserve, San Martin, Peru, 27 January 2018
- Lophotriccus vitiosus
Identification
10 cm (4 in)
- Long, white-edged, black crown feathers
- Whitish lores
- Olive upperparts
- Dusky wings with two greenish-yellow wingbars
- Dusky tail
Sexes similar; female's crest is less developed
Distribution
South America: found in Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 4 subspecies[1]:
- L. v. affinis:
- L. v. guianensis:
- The Guianas and north-eastern Brazil (Amap and Par ); Mato Grosso?
- L. v. congener:
- Western Amazonian Brazil (Rio Juru in south-west Amazonas)
- L. v. vitiosus:
- Eastern Peru (eastern San Mart¡n, southern Loreto and Hu nuco)
Habitat
Swamps and lowland damp forests, forest edges and second growth.
Behaviour
Diet
They are most likely to feed on insects, gleaned by quick sallies to the underside of leaves, but no detail of their diet is known.
Breeding
They construct a dome-shaped nest with a downward facing entrance. The clutch contains two eggs.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase Retrieved 21 August 2020
- Clock, B. (2020). Double-banded Pygmy-Tyrant (Lophotriccus vitiosus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.dbptyr1.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Double-banded_Pygmy_Tyrant
External Links
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