Johannes's Tody-Tyrant

About the Johannes's Tody-Tyrant

Johannes's tody-tyrant, or Joao's tody-tyrant, (Hemitriccus iohannis) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Johannes's tody-tyrant has a complicated taxonomic history. It was originally described in 1907 as Euscarthmus iohannis. During different parts of the twentieth century it was treated as a subspecies of the stripe-necked tody-tyrant (now H. striaticollis) and as a full species in genera Euscarthmornis and Idioptilon. Those two genera were eventually merged into Hemitriccus.

Johannes's tody-tyrant is monotypic. Johannes's tody-tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 9.2 to 12.7 g (0.32 to 0.45 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a bright olive crown. They have brownish lores, sometimes with a white spot above them, and the color extends around the eye. Their back and rump are bright olive. Their wings are dusky olive with indistinct yellow edges on the flight feathers and indistinct yellow tips on the coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is bright olive. Their throat is whitish with very thin black... Wikipedia →