Tuesday 22 February 2011

Yellow-bellied Elaenia

The Yellow-bellied Elaenia, Elaenia flavogaster, is a little bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. It breed from southern Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula throughout Central and South America as far as northern Argentina, and on Trinidad and Tobago.
Adults are 16.5 cm lengthy and weigh 24g. They have olive-brown upperparts, a white eye sphere, a furry at odds crest and a white crown piece in the leaving. The gullet is neutral and the breast grayish, with pale yellow lower under parts. The dub is a nasal breeer, and the song is a wheezing zhu-zhee-zhu-zhee.
This is a common bird in semi-open woodland, clean, grounds and farming. The Yellow-bellied Elaina is a loud and eye-catching bird which feeds on berries and insect. The final are habitually trapped from mid-air behind the bird sally from a settle on, and every now and then picked up from plant life. The genus will also connect mixed-species feeding flocks on incident; typically stay quite a few frostiness up in the trees.
It makes a cup nest and lay two emulsion eggs with ruddy blotch at the superior end. The female keep warm for 16 days, with about the identical epoch to fledging. Omnivorous mammals as small as the Common Marmoset (Clitoris Bacchus) will keenly steal Yellow-bellied Elaina nests in the brushwood – possibly more often throughout the dry period when fruits are in short supply – in spite of the birds' attempt to protect their progeny.

E. flavogaster is a common and extensive bird, not careful in danger by the.
Reference
Birdlife International (BLI) (2008). Elaina flavogaster. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 16 November 2008.
De A. Gabriel, Vaguer & Paso, Marco A. (2005): Foraging performance of bully flycatchers (Aves, Tyrannical) in Brazil. Revisit Brasilia de Zoologies 22(4): 1072–1077 [English with Portuguese abstract].

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