Birds of Brazil

    PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura)  
Genus: Piprites (2 species, 3 worldwide)


Wing-barred Piprites
Wing-barred Piprites (Piprites chloris tschudii)
Reserva Natural La Isla Escondida, Orito, Putumayo, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A small manakin-like flycatcher with pronounced wing bars, yellow eye ring and yellow throat. Note wing bars continue from side down the back in a right angle.

Black-capped Piprites
Black-capped Piprites (Piprites pileata) Near Threatened
Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil  
   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.

Rare and local at high altitudes in Atlantic rainforest.


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