Gray-capped Tyrannulet

About the Gray-capped Tyrannulet

The grey-capped tyrannulet (Phyllomyias griseocapilla) is a Least Concern species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Brazil. The grey-capped tyrannulet was originally described as Phyllomyias griseocapilla. It was moved to genus Oreotriccus in the early twentieth century, and Oreotriccus was then merged into Phyllomyias following a 1977 publication.

The grey-capped tyrannulet is monotypic. The grey-capped tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a slate-gray crown and nape and bright olive-green back and rump. Their lores and eye area are white with a faint dusky stripe through their eye. Their lower face is pale gray. Their wings are dusky with bright yellow edges on the flight feathers and the ends of the coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky olive. Their throat is grayish white, their breast pale gray, their flanks bright yellow-green, and their belly whitish. They have a brown iris, a small and rounded blackish bill, and gray legs and feet.

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