Johannes's Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus iohannis Scientific name definitions

The Johannes’s Tody-Tyrant is endemic to southwest Amazonia, where it occurs in floodplain woodland and scrub, as well as tall second growth, and has been recorded to at least 800 m. Its geographical range principally covers eastern Peru to northern Bolivia and across western Brazil, but there are also seemingly isolated records from localities in eastern Ecuador and southeast Colombia. This Hemitriccus is broadly similar in morphology to the more easterly distributed Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus striaticollis), with which it was formerly treated conspecifically, but has a much less sharply streaked throat, more obvious wing edgings, and a dusky (not whitish) eye-ring, but the two species are most easily distinguished vocally. Johannes’s Tody-Tyrant seems to be generally uncommon, but this impression is undoubtedly heightened by virtue of its inconspicuous behavior, which unquestionably means that the species is easily overlooked.

11 cm; 9·2–12·7 g. Crown and upperparts are uniform bright olive, lores and ocular area brownish, sometimes with white supraloral spot; wings dusky olive, indistinct yellow edges of remiges, two indistinct yellow wingbars; throat whitish with very fine black streaks, underparts pale yellow with blurry streaking, breast side and flanks smudged olive; iris whitish to pale straw-yellow; bill dark grey to blackish; legs pale yellowish, pinkish or light grey. Sexes alike.

Distinctive, fast staccato trill with separate introductory note, “tik-trrrrrrrrrrrrrrree”, rising at end.