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Yellow-crowned Elaenia
Myiopagis flavivertex (Sclater, PL, 1887)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Yellow-crowned Elaenia, Myiopagis flavivertex, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family that breeds in Amazonia in South America. It was first described in 1887 by P. L. Sclater. The bird is tied to flooded woodland, especially várzea and swamp forest beside major rivers, and it also uses similar forest on sandy ground in Venezuela and the Guianas. Its range is split into separate populations, with the broadest spread across the Guianas, north-eastern Brazil and the Amazon basin. It is a resident bird, and its diet includes insects.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: Amazonia
