Scrub Greenlet

Scrub Greenlet

Taxobox
name = Scrub Greenlet
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Vireonidae
genus = "Hylophilus"
species = "H. flavipes"
binomial = "Hylophilus flavipes"
binomial_authority = (Lafresnaye, 1845)

The Scrub Greenlet or Scrub Vireo, "Hylophilus flavipes", is a small passerine bird in the vireo family. It breeds in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Tobago.

It is a bird of forest edges and savanna which builds a deep cup nest suspended from a tree branch. The typical clutch is three white eggs, which are marked with brown.

The adult Scrub Greenlet is 11.5 cm long and weighs 13 g. It is mainly green on the upperparts, with brighter wings and rump, and an olive-brown head with very weak supercilium and yellowish eyering. The underparts are yellow, the bill is mainly dark and the legs are pale. The call is a long series of notes, "weary-weary-weary-weary", interspersed with churrs and squeaks.

The race "H. f. insularis" is a large, strong-billed form with a brown iris endemic to Tobago. Other races differ in underpart tone.

Scrub Greenlets feed on insects and spiders taken from the upper and middle levels of tree foliage. They also eat berries, especially before migration.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2
*cite book
last = Hilty
first = Steven L
title = Birds of Venezuela
publisher = Christopher Helm
date = 2003
location = London
isbn = 0-7136-6418-5
* "A guide to the birds of Costa Rica" by Stiles and Skutch ISBN 0-8014-9600-4


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