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Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher
Poecilotriccus calopterus (Sclater, PL, 1857)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher, Poecilotriccus calopterus, is a bird of the tyrant flycatcher family in western Amazonia, with a breeding range in South America. It lives in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, especially along the eastern Andean slope and in humid evergreen forest. It is a resident species. Its plumage is shared by both sexes, and adults have a mostly black head, a white throat, olive-green upperparts, black wings with pale edging, chestnut and bright yellow wing coverts, a black tail, and bright yellow underparts. It was first described in 1857.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: w Amazonia
