| Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet Phaeomyias murina Brazilian name: Bagageiro |
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Brazil and Peru The Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet is distributed from Panama south into a large part of South America north of central Argentina but is missing from the Andes and coastal south-east Brazil. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. |
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It is found in scrub, cerrado, deciduous and gallery forest as well as forest margins and gardens. It feeds
on insects and small fruits and is often seen perching upright while hunting. It is olive-brown above with whitish or cinnamon wing-bars and edging to the flight feathers. It has a broad but weak creamy supercilium. |
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Below is pale grey moving to pale yellow on the belly. The legs are grey and the bill is horn coloured with pink
at the base of the lower mandible. |
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