Amazonian Tyrannulet
Inezia subflava
Small flycatcher with a long tail often held cocked. Has an olive-brown back, yellow underparts, and two white wingbars. Note the broad white eye-ring “spectacles”. Always found near water, for example in shrubby vegetation at lake edges, and especially on river islands. Forages in the understory. Sings an intermittent series of fast high “pit-chew” notes, often in a duet.
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Inezia subflava
- Authority
- (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- Genus
- Inezia
Range and habitat
Streamside and riverbank shrubby vegetation, extensive swamp forests, and várzea frequently close to water. 200 m above sea level.[citation needed]
- Migration
- Resident species
Conservation
Not globally threatened. Rare to moderately common. Common in Colombia's Puerto Inrida (NE Guaina). occurs in the Brazilian national parks of Ja and Tapajós, the Anavilhanas Zoological Station, and the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park.
- Population trend
- stable
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Distribution
Bird Calls
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