Family Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Least Concern
White-lored Tyrannulet (Ornithion inerme)
Taxonomy
French: Tyranneau minute German: Weißzügel-Kleintyrann Spanish: Mosquerito moteado
Taxonomy:
O[rnithion]. inerme
Hartlaub
, 1853,Bahia, Brazil
.Distribution:
E & SE Colombia, S & SE Venezuela and the Guianas S to E Ecuador, E Peru, N Bolivia and N, W & C Brazil (Amazonia E to E Pará and NW Maranhão); also, apparently isolated coastal population in E Brazil (Paraíba S to Rio de Janeiro).
Descriptive notes
8 cm; 6–8 g. Has grey to dark grey crown, white lores and broken eyering (meeting over bill to form narrow “spectacle”); upperparts greyish-olive; wings... read more
Voice
Persistent, piercing series of 4–7 clear piping notes, “peee, dee-dee-deet”,... read more
Habitat
Humid tropical and upper tropical evergreen forest, gallery forest, swamp-forest, várzea... read more
Food and feeding
Arthropods. Forages singly or in pairs; occasionally joins mixed-species flocks. Actively flits from perch to perch in dense foliage,... read more
Breeding
Birds with enlarged gonads, also juveniles seen, in Dec in Peru. Single white egg with brown markings, said to be of this species, measured... read more
Movements
Probably resident.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Uncommon to locally fairly common; probably often overlooked. Occurs in many national parks and other protected areas throughout its large range,... read more
Name “O. fasciatum” is a synonym. Monotypic.