Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet (Tyrannulus elatus)
About the Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet
The yellow-crowned tyrannulet (Tyrannulus elatus) is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, and in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The yellow-crowned tyrannulet was originally described as Sylvia elata in 1790; it was reclassified in genus Tyrannulus in 1816. It is the only member of genus Tyrannulus and has no subspecies.
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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.
3 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×3 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 109 recordings for this species in total.
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- American KestrelFalco sparveriusrecording
- BananaquitCoereba flaveolarecording
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- Barred Forest FalconMicrastur ruficollisrecording
- Bay-headed TanagerTangara gyrolarecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.