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Yellow-bellied elaenia
Elaenia flavogaster · Family Tyrannidae
Elaenia flavogaster
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 534,215
- Countries and territories with records
- 26
About this species
This species has 534,215 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (26.4%), Costa Rica (18.1%), Brazil (18.1%), Belize (8.8%) and Panama (8.2%); together they account for 79.6% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.53% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Elaenia flavogaster combines the genus name Elaenia with the species epithet flavogaster. The Warbla app catalog lists 21 species of the genus Elaenia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Elaenia albiceps, Elaenia frantzii and Elaenia parvirostris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 25th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 3.9 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.