Yungas Tyrannulet

About the Yungas Tyrannulet

The Yungas tyrannulet (Phyllomyias weedeni) is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. The Yungas tyrannulet was discovered in the early 1990s but not formally described until 2008. It had apparently either been overlooked or mistaken for the similar planalto tyrannulet (P. fasciatus). It is monotypic.

The Yungas tyrannulet is 10 to 11.5 cm (3.9 to 4.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dull olive-gray crown and nape with a slightly mottled appearance. Their lores, supercilium, partial eyering, and lower face are whitish with a dark stripe through their eye. Their upperparts are yellow-olive that becomes paler and more yellowish on their rump and uppertail coverts. Their flight feathers are fuscous to dusky brown with pale yellowish to creamy edges. Their wing coverts are dusky brown with creamy to slightly yellowish to buffy tips and edges that show as two bars on the closed wing. Their tail is dusky brown with yellowish outer edges to the feathers. Their chin and upper throat are whitish with a faint yellow tinge on... Wikipedia →