Guianan Tyrannulet Zimmerius acer
(aka Slender-footed Tyrannulet Zimmerius gracilipes acer)

Brazilian name: Poiaeiro-de-pata-fina

Slender-footed Tyrannulet, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil
October 2008

The Guianan Tyrannulet is distributed in eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and north-east Brazil. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in humid forest and forest edges and is usually high in the canopy and therefore difficult to see.

Slender-footed Tyrannulet, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image

Like all Zimmerius tyrannulets its wings are edged with yellow. It has a grey head and whitish supraloral stripe above a dark eyestripe. The iris is pale grey. Upperparts are olive. The throat is whitish, the breast olive-grey with a yellow wash.

Slender-footed Tyrannulet, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image

It eats insects and small fruit especially mistletoe.

There is a page in Portuguese on Wikiaves.

 

Slender-footed Tyrannulet, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image
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