Biology:Mottle-cheeked tyrannulet

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Short description: Species of bird

Mottle-cheeked tyrannulet
Igerito Phylloscartes ventralis.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Phylloscartes
Species:
P. ventralis
Binomial name
Phylloscartes ventralis
(Temminck, 1824)
Phylloscartes ventralis map.svg

The mottle-cheeked tyrannulet (Phylloscartes ventralis) is a generally common, small species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It occurs in two disjunct populations, one associated with montane Atlantic Forest in south-eastern Brazil , eastern Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina and Uruguay, and another found in forest growing on the east Andean slope in Peru, Bolivia and north-western Argentina . A very active bird usually seen with its tail held cocked.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1271621 entry