Original account 189 · seb_species_0189

Yellow Tyrannulet

Capsiempis flaveola

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

From the original CD

Complete decoded account text

11.5 cm. A robust greenish-yellow tyrannulet of shrubby borders and swamp land. Bill black and slender. Light olive-green above with a yellow superciliary stripe. Wings dusky-black with two broad yellow wing bars. Below bright yellow. Call is a deep burry trill "turrrrrrrrrr" and also a "wuit wuitwuit", "wutwutwut", "witu witu witu..." and other variations. The duet is a protracted warble consisting of trills and "wuit" notes, reminiscent of /Phyllomyias fasciatus duets. Forages low in bushes and scrub in pairs or small groups. A upward-hover gleaner. Builds a cup nest ^44 . Occurs in open bushy forest, gallery woodland and forest border and bushy swamp land. Throughout, up to 1300 meters. 1423 Calls. Pirapora, 11<10>12<10>98. Cloudy, 25<91>C. Scrub, gallery forest. With /Synallaxis frontalis .: 5947 Call. Pereque, near Angra dos Reis, 10<10>16<10>99. Sunny, 30<91>C. Open scrub. With /Formicivora erythronotos : 14034 Duet. Picinguaba, east of Ubatuba, 10<10>15<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Secondary brush. With /Drymophila ferruginea, Terenura maculata : 3051 Song , calls. Cornell Cat 19310. Turvo Forest Reserve, Rio Grande do Sul, 11<10>25<10>77. With /Tachyphonus coronatus . Recording by W. Belton.: 12940 Song, call. Cornell Cat 19313. Turvo Forest Reserve, Rio Grande do Sul, 11<10>26<10>77. With /Turdus rufiventris, Drymophila ferruginea . Recording by W. Belton.: 957 >:

Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved

Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic

Structured account sections

Description

Voice

Call is a deep burry trill "turrrrrrrrrr" and also a "wuit wuitwuit", "wutwutwut", "witu witu witu..." and other variations. The duet is a protracted warble consisting of trills and "wuit" notes, reminiscent of /Phyllomyias fasciatus duets.

Behavior

Forages low in bushes and scrub in pairs or small groups. A upward-hover gleaner.

Breeding

Builds a cup nest ^44 .

Habitat and status

Occurs in open bushy forest, gallery woodland and forest border and bushy swamp land.

Distribution

Throughout, up to 1300 meters.

Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative

Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical

Release history

This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.

Disc 3 in this release's bird list (aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2 in this release's bird list (aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011) in this release's bird list (aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)

Names by release

Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola Disc 3, Disc 1 (2011)
Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveolus Disc 2

The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision

The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.

Historical taxonomy

WORLD

Capsiempis flaveola

Yellow Tyrannulet

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Tyrannulets

CLEMENTS

Capsiempis flaveola

Yellow Tyrannulet

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Tyrannulets

AOU_HM

Capsiempis flaveola

Yellow Tyrannulet

Tyrannidae,Elaeninae

Tyrannulets

Recordings

1423.mp3

1423 Calls. Pirapora, 11<10>12<10>98. Cloudy, 25<91>C. Scrub, gallery forest. With /Synallaxis frontalis .

Historical relationship: account_audio; status: retained_v1_0_1; source order: 1.