Coopman's elaenia

Coopman's elaenia
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Elaenia
Species: E. brachyptera
Binomial name
Elaenia brachyptera
von Berlepsch, 1907

Coopman's elaenia (Elaenia brachyptera) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers.

It is found in southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the Lesser Elaenia. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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