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Noronha Elaenia
Elaenia ridleyana Sharpe, 1888
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Noronha Elaenia, Elaenia ridleyana, is a passerine in the Tyrannidae family that breeds on Ilha Fernando de Noronha in South America. It is confined to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago off Brazil, where it lives in scrub, dry woodland, open forest, thickets and gardens near houses. The bird is a year-round resident there. It is a large elaenia with a small crest, and the sexes look alike. Adults show olive-brown on the head, dark greyish olive above, dusky wings with three wing bars, a dusky tail, greyish throat, dark olive-grey breast, and yellow belly and undertail coverts.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: Ilha Fernando de Noronha
