Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest, subtropical and tropical moist and high altitude shrubland. From 2,500 - 3,000 m, occasionally 1,500 - 3,600 m.
Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.
Very local in Andes of western Venezuela (Mérida), Colombia (south to Cundinamarca in eastern cordillera, in Cauca and Nariño in west), western and eastern Ecuador, and eastern slope in Peru (also three records on western slope), Bolivia (south to Tarija) and extreme north-western Argentina (northern Salta).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias uropygialis) [XC227819]
by Niels Krabbe from Mindo area, Ecuador (song)
Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias uropygialis) [XC803232]
by Jerome Fischer from Calacali, 1.5Km desde la \, Ecuador (song)
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. Was for long placed in latter.