Foothill Elaenia (Myiopagis olallai)

Family
Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
Coopmans & Krabbe, 2000

Habitat
Within and at the edge of very humid to wet primary submontane forest. From 890 - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Ecuador (B), Peru (B).

Locally in eastern Andes of northern and southern Ecuador and in south-central Peru (Cordillera Vilcabamba, in Ayacucho).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status VU
Habitat destruction and degradation is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (48)...)

Foothill Elaenia (Myiopagis olallai) [XC97993]
by Erik Moelgaard from Wildsumaco, 5km NW Guagua Sumaco, Napo, Ecuador (song)

Foothill Elaenia (Myiopagis olallai) [XC297248]
by and one of several cloud forest sites in the Amalfi-Anor\u00ed region of the northern Central cordillera where we've discovered this rare bird, which was provisionally reported as *M. caniceps* (rightly so!) in [Ornitolog\u00eda Neotropical {2008}19:495\u2013515](http:\/\/www.museum.lsu.edu\/cuervo\/pubs_files\/Cuervo_etalON2008.pdf). In Amalfi, adults \ from Parque Nacional Podocarpus - Sector R\u00edo Bombuscaro (Zamora Chinchipe), Ecuador (call)

Subspecies
Probably most closely related to Atlantic Grey Elaenia (Myiopagis caniceps).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

coopmansi Cuervo, Stiles, Lentino, Brumfield & Derryberry, 2014 - Northern Central Andes of Colombia (Antioquia).
incognita Cuervo, Stiles, Lentino, Brumfield & Derryberry, 2014 - Serran�a de Perij�, Venezuela.
olallai Coopmans & Krabbe, 2000 - North-central Colombia, western Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Foothill Elaenia (Myiopagis olallai) - 10 files

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