Yellow-bellied Elaenia

Yellow-bellied Elaenia

Taxobox
name = Yellow-bellied Elaenia


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
subclassis = Neornithes
infraclassis = Neognathae
superordo = Neoaves
ordo = Passeriformes
subordo = Tyranni
infraordo = Tyrannides
familia = Tyrannidae
genus = " Elaenia "
species = "E. flavogaster"
binomial = "Elaenia flavogaster"
binomial_authority = (Thunberg, 1822)
subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
subdivision = 4, see text

The Yellow-bellied Elaenia, "Elaenia flavogaster", is a small bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds from southern Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula through Central and South America as far as northern Argentina, and on Trinidad and Tobago.

Adults are 16.5cm long and weigh 24g. They have olive-brown upperparts, a white eye ring, a bushy divided crest and a white crown patch in the parting. The throat is pale and the breast greyish, with pale yellow lower underparts. The call is a nasal "breeer", and the song is a wheezing "zhu-zhee-zhu-zhee".

4 subspecies are recognized:
* "Elaenia flavogaster flavogaster"
* "Elaenia flavogaster pallididorsalis"
* "Elaenia flavogaster semipagana"
* "Elaenia flavogaster subpagana"

This is a common bird in semi-open woodland, scrub, gardens and cultivation. The Yellow-bellied Elaenia is a noisy and conspicuous bird which feeds on berries and insects. The latter are usually caught from mid-air after the bird sallies from a perch, and sometimes picked up from plants [de A. Gabriel & Pizo (2005)] .

It makes a cup nest and lays two cream eggs with reddish blotches at the larger end. The female incubates for 16 days, with about the same period to fledging.

Footnotes

References

*|year=2004|id=49831|title=Elaenia flavogaster|downloaded=12 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* (2005): Foraging behavior of tyrant flycatchers (Aves, Tyrannidae) in Brazil. "Revista Brasileira de Zoologia" 22(4): 1072–1077. doi|10.1590/S0101-81752005000400036 [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbzool/v22n4/a36v22n4.pdf PDF fulltext]
* (1991): "A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago" (2nd edition). Comstock Publishing, Ithaca, N.Y.. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2
* (2003): "Birds of Venezuela". Christopher Helm, London. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5

External links

* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=4769 Yellow-bellied Elaenia videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/11601900.htm Stamps] (for Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname)
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=yellow-bellied+elaenia&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Yellow-bellied Elaenia photo gallery] VIREO


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