Slender-billed Inezia
Photo © David F. Belmonte
Photo © David F. Belmonte — CC BY 4.0 — Source: iNaturalist #207869082The slender-billed inezia, or slender-billed tyrannulet, (Inezia tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. == Taxonomy and systematics == The slender-billed inezia was originally described as Camptostoma pussillum tenuirostris, a subspecies of what is now the southern beardless tyrannulet (Camptostoma obsoletum). Some taxonomists later placed it as a full species in genus Phaeomyias and eventually in its current genus Inezia. Some ornithologists propose that Inezia is polyphyletic and that the slender-billed inezia should properly be in its own genus. The slender-billed inezia is monotypic. == Description == The slender-billed inezia is 9 to 9.5 cm (3.5 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 5 to 6 g (0.18 to 0.21 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a grayish olive crown. Their face is mostly whitish with a thin white supercilium and a thin white eye-ring. Their back and rump are grayish olive. Their wings are dusky with dull white edges on the inner flight feathers and tips of the wing coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky olive with thin white outer edges and tips on the feathers. Their throat…
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