Mouse-colored tyrannulet

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Mouse-colored tyrannulet
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At Piraju, São Paulo State, Brazil
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Phaeomyias
Species:
P. murina
Binomial name
Phaeomyias murina
(Spix, 1825)
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The mouse-colored tyrannulet (Phaeomyias murina) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It occurs in a wide range of scrubby and wooded habitats in tropical and subtropical South America, being absent from the southernmost part of the continent, the high Andes and dense rainforest. It also occurs in Panama and Costa Rica. It is generally common, but its small size and dull plumage results in it often being overlooked – or at least not identified, as it resembles several other tyrant flycatchers.

Four subspecies are recognised: [2]

The mouse-colored tyrannulet was formerly considered conspecific with the Tumbesian tyrannulet (Phaeomyias tumbezana) that occurs west of the Andes in southwest Ecuador and northwest Peru. The two species are visually very similar, but vocally distinct. [3] It was also conspecific with the Cocos flycatcher, Nesotriccus ridgwayi . Clements places subspecies incmta/eremonoma and murinaina/wagae their own respective species, the northern mouse-colored tyrannulet, Nesotriccus incomtus and southern mouse-colored tyrannulet, Nesotriccus murinus. With Clements, the genus Phaeomyias becomes obsolete and is merged into Nesotriccus.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Phaeomyias murina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T103681893A93718334. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103681893A93718334.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
  3. Rheindt, Frank E.; Norman, Janette A.; Christidis, Les (2008). "Genetic differentiation across the Andes in two pan-Neotropical tyrant-flycatcher species". Emu. 108 (3): 261–268. doi:10.1071/mu08020.