Brazilian name: Poiaeiro-de-pata-fina

The Yellow Tyrannulet is distributed in most of the Amazon Basin and the Guianas with disjunct populations in Ceará, Pernambuco and Alagoas. It is found in humid forest and forest edges and is usually high in the canopy and therefore difficult to see.

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. These photos are of the sub-species Z. g. acer . The other sub-species have brighter yellow on the belly.

It eats insects and small fruit especially mistletoe.

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