White-crested tyrannulet

White-crested tyrannulet
White-crested tyrannulet at Piraju, São Paulo State, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Serpophaga
Species: S. subcristata
Binomial name
Serpophaga subcristata
(Vieillot, 1817)

The white-crested tyrannulet (Serpophaga subcristata) is a small species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is found in woodland and open habitats with scatted bushes and trees in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is closely related to the white-bellied tyrannulet, but unlike that species the belly of the white-crested tyrannulet is yellow. The recently described Straneck's tyrannulet is extremely similar to the white-crested tyrannulet and was for a long time confused with that species; the two are generally best separated by voice.

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