Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet: Small flycatcher with gray upperparts and breast, slight crest, pale eyebrow, indistinct eye-ring, and dull white or pale yellow belly. Wings are gray with two pale bars. The bill is small, slightly decurved, and dark with an orange base. Weak direct flight.

● Song: "peeert" or "pee-yert"

● Foraging & Feeding: Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet: In summer, hawks insects in mid-air; in winter, forages for insects by gleaning from twigs and leaves like a kinglet, warbler, or vireo. Also feeds on small berries.

● Breeding & nesting: Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet: One to three white eggs finely marked with brown, olive, and gray are laid in a spherical nest with a high entrance on one side, made of grass and weeds, and lined with vegetation, down, and feathers. Nest is built on an outer branch of a deciduous tree 4 to 50 feet above the ground. Incubation period is unknown but is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet: Buff-breasted Flycatcher is slightly larger, has pale brown upperparts and head, cinnamon-brown breast, belly, and underparts, two white wingbars, and white eye-ring that forms a teardrop.

Flight Pattern