Northern beardless-tyrannulet Camptostoma imberbe

Identification Tips:

• Length: 3.5 inches
• Very small flycatcher
• Triangular head
• Indistinct supercilium
• Grayish upperparts
• Grayish breast
• Yellowish wash to underparts
• United States ranged limited to southeastern Arizona and southern Texas

Similar species:

This very small flycatcher is more active than most flycatchers. It is more likely to be confused with a Ruby-crowned Kinglet but it lacks an eye ring. Empidonax flycatchers have eye rings and lack the supercilium of the tyrannulet.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.