Lesser Elaenia (Elaenia chiriquensis)
About the Lesser Elaenia
The lesser elaenia (Elaenia chiriquensis) is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, on Trinidad, in every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay, and as a vagrant on Bonaire and Curaçao. The lesser elaenia has two subspecies, the nominate E. c. chiriquensis (Lawrence, 1865) and E. c. albivertex (Pelzeln, 1868). What is now Coopmans's elaenia (E. brachyptera) was previously a third subspecies of it. Based on a study published in 2015, taxonomic systems recognized it as a species starting in 2016.
A real field recording of the Lesser Elaenia. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
Listen
Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 138 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Brownish ElaeniaElaenia pelzelniprofile
- Caribbean ElaeniaElaenia martinicaprofile
- Chilean ElaeniaElaenia chilensisprofile
- Coopmans's ElaeniaElaenia brachypteraprofile
- Great ElaeniaElaenia dayiprofile
- Highland ElaeniaElaenia obscurarecording
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.