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White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher
Poecilotriccus albifacies (Blake, 1959)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher, Poecilotriccus albifacies, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family that breeds in south-east Peru, north-west Bolivia and extreme western Brazil. It is a local bird of humid tropical transitional forest, where it is tied almost entirely to thick Guadua bamboo stands. The species was first described in 1959 and is now placed in Poecilotriccus. It is monotypic. Its known range is small and scattered across a few sites in the region.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: se Peru, nw Bolivia and extreme w Brazil
