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Flycatcher of Ecuador (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter 49bentley
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Best guess = Sulphur-bellied Tyrannulet. See e.g.
[I especially like the helpful " The underparts are underparts."]
[I especially like the helpful " The underparts are underparts."]
pbjosh
missing the neotropics
To me it looks more like White-tailed Tyrannulet. The belly does show some yellow wash, but it is not really vivid yellow. The superciliary is not really strong in front of the eye, the wing bars are quite tawny/buffy toned. All that makes it look more like White-tailed, at least to my eye. White-tailed is also almost always somewhat to much more common than Sulphur-bellied, though both occur at San Isidro/Yanayacu. Much easier to do these guys on voice 
To me it looks more like White-tailed Tyrannulet. The belly does show some yellow wash, but it is not really vivid yellow. The superciliary is not really strong in front of the eye, the wing bars are quite tawny/buffy toned. All that makes it look more like White-tailed, at least to my eye. White-tailed is also almost always somewhat to much more common than Sulphur-bellied, though both occur at San Isidro/Yanayacu. Much easier to do these guys on voice
You may well be right and clearly know the area better than me. My experience of white-tailed is of a generally more washed-out coloured bird giving a different feel to the OP picture and (indeed) fairly close to the pics here:
but I agree that the pic isn't great for sulphur-bellied either.