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Yellow-olive Flatbill

Tolmomyias sulphurescens · Family Tyrannidae

Tolmomyias sulphurescens

Family Tyrannidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
GBIF occurrence records
324,476
Countries and territories with records
21
Yellow-olive Flatbill
Dario Sanches from São Paulo, Brazil · Tolmomyias sulphurescens -Parque Estadual da Cantareira, Sao Paulo, Brazil-8.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Dario Sanches from São Paulo, Brazil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Tolmomyias_sulphurescens_-_Yellow-olive_Flatbill_XC249339.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 324,476 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Brazil (25.5%), Costa Rica (22.2%), Belize (11.6%), Colombia (9.3%) and Mexico (7.2%); together they account for 75.8% of the total. In Brazil, this species accounts for 0.35% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Tolmomyias sulphurescens combines the genus name Tolmomyias with the species epithet sulphurescens. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Tolmomyias; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tolmomyias flaviventris, Tolmomyias assimilis and Tolmomyias poliocephalus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 30th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 2.4 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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