Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea) - HBW 9, p. 415
French: Tyran des palmiers
German: Schwefeltyrann
Spanish: Tirano Palmero
Taxonomy: Muscicapa sulphurea Spix, 1825, Manaus, Rio Negro, Brazil.
Long considered closely related to Myiozetetes on grounds of plumage. More recent evidence relating primarily to syringeal morphology, nest architecture and molecular-sequence data indicates close affinity with, instead, Megarynchus; molecular data also provide conflicting but fairly weak evidence for the two being either the sister-group to Conopias, or basal to a group including Conopias as sister to a well-supported clade containing Empidonomus, Griseotyrannus and Tyrannus, but additional sequence data necessary in order to resolve true affi.. View all taxonomy...
Long considered closely related to Myiozetetes on grounds of plumage. More recent evidence relating primarily to syringeal morphology, nest architecture and molecular-sequence data indicates close affinity with, instead, Megarynchus; molecular data also provide conflicting but fairly weak evidence for the two being either the sister-group to Conopias, or basal to a group including Conopias as sister to a well-supported clade containing Empidonomus, Griseotyrannus and Tyrannus, but additional sequence data necessary in order to resolve true affinities among these taxa. Monotypic.
Distribution: E Colombia (S from Meta and Vaupés), E & S Venezuela (SE Sucre S to Delta Amacuro, Bolívar and Amazonas), Trinidad and the Guianas S to E Ecuador (primarily R Napo and R Aguarico, but certainly more widespread), E Peru (Loreto, Ucayali, recorded also Madre de Dios), extreme NW Bolivia (Pando area), and Amazonian Brazil (E to Maranhão, S to Rondônia, S Mato Grosso, Goiás and Tocantins).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in a morototó (Schefflera morototoni), calling and eating its fruits. Locality Amazonia National Park, Pará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 22 August 2010 1 year ago 57 sec 4 -
A bird perched in a morototó tree (Schefflera morototoni) eating fruits. Locality Amazonia National Park, Pará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 20 August 2010 1 year ago 27 sec 3.5 -
A bird moving in a morototó tree (Schefflera morototoni) eating fruits, calling and flying away. Locality Amazonia National Park, Pará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 20 August 2010 1 year ago 30 sec 3.3 -
an individual at the remnant of Moriche Palm in Waterloo Locality Waterloo, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
DAVID ASCANIO 1 March 2011 1 year ago 45 sec 3
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On a branch
Locality Cumaral, Meta Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 6 January 2012 18 weeks ago 3.3 -
A bird perched on a dead palm leaf
Locality Roraima State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Arthur Grosset 15 July 2001 2 years ago 2.7 -
A bird in a morototó tree (Schefflera morototoni).
Locality Amazonia National Park, Pará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 20 August 2010 1 year ago 2.6
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Calls of a bird while in a morototó tree (Schefflera morototoni), where it was eating fruits. Locality Amazonia National Park, Pará State, Brazil
(Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 22 August 2010 1 year ago 4
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