Eastern Brazil in south-central Bahia and from Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo south to Santa Catarina.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010) and decreasing.
Status NT
Habitat destruction and degradation through urbanisation, industrialisation, agricultural expansion, colonisation and associated road-building is the main threat.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Grey-capped Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias griseocapilla) [XC5718]
by Nick Athanas from Boraceia Biological Station, SP state, Brazil (song)
Grey-capped Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias griseocapilla) [XC227812]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Serra da Graciosa, Paran\u00e1, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Genus as presently constituted may be polyphyletic. Anatomical evidence suggests that present species may be closest to Planalto Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias fasciatus) and Sooty-headed Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias griseiceps) and that all perhaps unrelated to others of genus, some or all of which possibly better placed in resurrected genus Tyranniscus. Has been placed by some authors in genus Oreotriccus, which originally contained only Plumbeous-crowned Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias plumbeiceps), but considered not allied to latter.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet