Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Tyrannidae > Myiornis > Myiornis atricapillusMyiornis atricapillus (Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant; Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant)The black-capped pygmy tyrant (Myiornis atricapillus) is the smallest passerine bird in its range, though larger than its cousin, the short-tailed pygmy tyrant. This tyrant flycatcher occurs from Costa Rica to north-western Ecuador. The black-capped pygmy tyrant can be seen alone, in pairs, or family groups, hunting small insects in rapid dashes. The call is a thin ttseep which can be confused with an insect or frog. Family groups also communicate with soft whistles and trills. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.64965 EDGE Score: 1.89456 |
Adult Weight [1] | 5 grams | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Tropical evergreen forests | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | Wintering Habitat [2] | Tropical evergreen forests | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 100 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 20 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 80 % | | Clutch Size [4] | 2 |
|
Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
No |
|
|
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena |
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru |
No |
|
|
|
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
|