Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant

About the Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant

The scale-crested pygmy tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, native to the American Cordillera. The scale-crested pygmy tyrant was originally described in 1844 as Euscarthmus pileatus. It was later moved into Lophotriccus. Several authors have suggested that genus Lophotriccus should be merged into genus Hemitriccus.

The scale-crested pygmy tyrant has these five subspecies: L. p. luteiventris Taczanowski, 1884 L. p. santaeluciae Todd, 1952 L. p. squamaecrista (Lafresnaye, 1846) L. p. pileatus (Tschudi, 1844) L. p. hypochlorus Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1906 The scale-crested pygmy tyrant is 8 to 10 cm (3.1 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 7 to 8 g (0.25 to 0.28 oz). It has long crown feathers that form the eponymous crest and that it sometimes erects and fans. Females have a smaller crest than males but the sexes otherwise have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies L. p. pileatus have a black crest with rufous edges on the feathers. They have whitish lores on an otherwise brownish face. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are olive. Their wings are dusky with yellow edges on the... Wikipedia →