Spectacled Bristle Tyrant
Pogonotriccus orbitalis (Cabanis, 1873)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Spectacled Bristle Tyrant, Pogonotriccus orbitalis, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family that breeds in South America from southern Colombia to Bolivia. It lives in humid montane forest on Andean slopes, mainly in foothill and subtropical zones below cloudforest, and is also present in Ecuador and Peru. The bird is a resident all year. It is a small tyrant with the sexes alike, marked by a grey crown, a pale eye-ring, yellowish underparts, olive upperparts, and dusky wings with pale yellow wing bars.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: s Colombia to Bolivia
