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Marañon Tyrannulet
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Marañon Tyrannulet
Nesotriccus maranonicus
The Maranon tyrannulet or Marañon tyrannulet (Nesotriccus maranonicus) is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.
From the article Maranon tyrannulet on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Maranon tyrannulet is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a brownish gray head with an indistinct whitish supercilium. Their upperparts and tail are brownish gray. Their wings are dusky with buff tips on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their throat, breast, and flanks are grayish and their belly yellowish. Both sexes have a dark brown iris, a stubby bill with whitish or pinkish at the base of the mandible, and blackish legs and feet.
Range & habitat
The Maranon tyrannulet is listed by some sources as found only in the Marañón River valley in northern Peru's Amazonas, Cajamarca, and La Libertad departments. Other sources also include southern Ecuador's Loja Province. It inhabits arid scrublands and woodlands.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
As far as is known, the Maranon tyrannulet's diet and foraging behavior are the same as those of the southern mouse-colored tyrannulet, which see here.
Wikipedia: “Feeding”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1444140.