Spectacled tyrannulet

Spectacled tyrannulet
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Zimmerius
Species:	Z. improbus
Binomial name
	Zimmerius improbus; (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1871)

Short description: Species of bird

The spectacled tyrannulet (Zimmerius improbus), also known as specious tyrannulet or mountain tyrannulet, is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It occurs in Venezuela and Colombia.

The spectacled tyrannulet was described in 1871 by the English naturalists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin under the binomial name Tyranniscus improbus.^[2] It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Guatemalan tyrannulet (Zimmerius vilissimus).^[3]^[4]

There are two subspecies:^[4]

Zimmerius improbus tamae (Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1954) – Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeast Colombia
Zimmerius improbus improbus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1871) – Serranía del Perijá in northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela

References

↑ BirdLife International (2017). "Zimmerius improbus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T104008963A112284037. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T104008963A112284037.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/104008963/112284037. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
↑ Sclater, P.L.; Salvin, O. (1871). "Description of five new species of birds from the United States of Columbia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 840–844 [841]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28555745. The volume is dated 1870 but was not published until 1871.
↑ "Proposal (441): Split Zimmerius improbus from Z. vilissimus". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. 2010. http://museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop441.htm.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/.

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[iucn_status_11_November_2021-1] BirdLife International (2017). "Zimmerius improbus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T104008963A112284037. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T104008963A112284037.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/104008963/112284037. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

[2] Sclater, P.L.; Salvin, O. (1871). "Description of five new species of birds from the United States of Columbia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 840–844 [841]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28555745. The volume is dated 1870 but was not published until 1871.

[3] "Proposal (441): Split Zimmerius improbus from Z. vilissimus". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. 2010. http://museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop441.htm.

[ioc-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2017). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/.

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Spectacled tyrannulet

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Zimmerius
Species:	Z. improbus
Binomial name
*Zimmerius improbus* (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1871)

Spectacled tyrannulet

Topic: Biology

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