Family Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Least Concern
White-cheeked Tody-flycatcher (Poecilotriccus albifacies)
Taxonomy
French: Todirostre à face blanche German: Weißwangen-Todityrann Spanish: Titirijí cariblanco
Other common names:
White-cheeked Tody-tyrant
Taxonomy:
Todirostrum albifacies
Blake
, 1959,left bank of Boca de Río Colorado, Madre de Dios, Peru
.Descriptive notes
9·5 cm; 8 g. Male has distinctive rufous crown, white side of head, black nuchal collar extending forwards in two thin black stripes pointing towards eye and malar area;... read more
Voice
Call, by both sexes, a fast series of sharp “pik” notes, often accelerating, e.g. “pic-picpic... read more
Habitat
Closely associated with dense Guadua bamboo thickets in humid and mainly transitional... read more
Food and feeding
Insectivore. Usually forages in pairs, 2–9 m above ground in bamboo thickets, occasionally in adjacent forest; uses upward and... read more
Breeding
No information.
Movements
Probably sedentary.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Restricted-range species: present in South-east Peruvian Lowlands EBA. Uncommon and very local. Occurs above Amazonia Lodge (Cuzco),... read more
Sometimes considered conspecific with P. capitalis. Monotypic.