Nombre en español: Espatulilla Pintada

Nombre en ingles: Painted Tody-Flycatcher

Nombre científico: Todirostrum pictum

Familia: Tyrannidae

Foto: Nick Athanas

Audio: Peter Boesman (xeno-canto)

El titirijí pintado o espatulilla pintada (Todirostrum pictum) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Tyrannidae que vive en América del Sur.

Descripción

Mide 9 a 10 cm de longitud. Su cabeza es negra azabache, tiene las partes inferiores de color amarillo con líneas negras en el pecho; las partes superiores verdes con hombros negros y los bordes de las alas amarillos; listas lorales y cuello blancos; el iris es de color amarillo llamativo. El pico es negro.

Distribución y hábitat

Se encuentra en Brasil, Guayana francesa, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela y Colombia .

El titirijí pintado vive en el dosel del borde del bosque húmedo, hacia los 400 m de altitud.

Alimentación

Se alimenta de insectos alados. También incluye frutos en su dieta.

Reproducción

Construye un nido de forma esférica, con una entrada lateral y trasera, que cuelga de una rama.

Painted tody-flycatcher

The painted tody-flycatcher (Todirostrum pictum) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in the Guianas of French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname; also eastern-southeastern Venezuela and the northeastern states of Brazil of the Amazon Basin and Colombia.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

The painted tody-flycatcher is a medium to small bird, with a bright sulphur-yellow breast and small areas of white-black sides; it has a jet-black head, white on the upper neck, and mostly black wings with yellow feathers, and some white feathers. It has a medium to long, strong black bill, and a white spot above the cere between the eyes.

Range in the Guianas, northeastern Amazon Basin

The range of the painted tody-flycatcher is centered on the Guianas, and the Guiana Shield countries bordering the northeast Amazon Basin. The contiguous range is only north of the Amazon River and extends northwestwards into southeast and eastern Venezuela.

The range in Venezuela is limited to the upstream regions of the Caribbean north-flowing Orinoco River; it occurs on the downstream, eastern banks of the Orinoco River drainage to the Caribbean, away from the river proper by about 100 km. In Venezuela’s eastern neighboring Roraima state Brazil, the range is complete; the area to the west, extreme northeast Amazonas state, the painted tody-flycatcher’s range is limited to the northeast banks of the Rio Negro.

At the Amazon River outlet to the Atlantic Ocean, the species’ range is all of the northeastern state of Amapá with neighboring French Guiana and the Atlantic Ocean.