Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet Phaeomyias murina

Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet Phaeomyias murina

Brazilian name: Bagageiro

Mouse-coloured Tyrannulet, Chapada de Araripe, Ceará, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image

Chapada de Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
October 2005

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.

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.

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.

There are recordings on xeno-canto, a distribution map from NatureServe and additional information available via Avibase.

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