Mecocerculus

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image = Mecocerculus leucophrys -Ecuador-8.jpg

| image_caption = White-throated tyrannulet (Mecocerculus leucophrys)

| taxon = Mecocerculus

| authority = P.L. Sclater, 1862

| type_species = Tyrannula setophagoides{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=107 |title= Tyrannidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Bonaparte, 1845

}}

Mecocerculus is a genus of birds in the large tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

It contains the following 6 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Tyrant flycatchers | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flycatchers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=27 June 2019 }}

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ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
120pxMecocerculus leucophrysWhite-throated tyrannuletArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
120pxMecocerculus poecilocercusWhite-tailed tyrannuletColombia, Ecuador, and Peru
120pxMecocerculus hellmayriBuff-banded tyrannuletArgentina, Bolivia, and Peru
120pxMecocerculus calopterusRufous-winged tyrannuletEcuador and Peru
120pxMecocerculus minorSulphur-bellied tyrannuletColombia, Ecuador and Peru
120pxMecocerculus stictopterusWhite-banded tyrannuletBolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela

References

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Birds of the Northern Andes

Category:Taxa named by Philip Sclater

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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