Brown-capped Tyrannulet Ornithion brunneicapillus Scientific name definitions

Brown-capped Tyrannulet is a tiny flycatcher that is a typical member of mixed insectivorous songbird flocks in southeastern Central America and extreme northwestern South America.  It prefers the canopy of humid, lowland forest and woodland below 1200 meters from Costa Rica south to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador.  The species is brown-capped with a bold white supercilium and black lores/ ocular stripe, and also has bright yellow underparts, olive upperparts, and a stubby bill and short tail.  Visually inconspicuous within the forest, the Brown-capped Tyrannulet is most easily detected by call, a diagnostic series of short whistles with a pause after the first note.

Caribbean slope of Costa Rica S to W & NC Colombia and W Ecuador (El Oro); also locally in NE Colombia and W & N Venezuela (E to S Miranda); recently recorded in S Nicaragua (1 Sandoval, L., and W. J. Arendt (2011). Two new species for Nicaragua and other notes on the avifauna of the Atlantic Region and Paso del Istmo Biological Corridor. Cotinga 33:50–57. Close ).