| Yungas Tyrannulet | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Not rated
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Phyllomyias |
| Species: | P. weedeni |
| Binomial name | |
| Phyllomyias weedeni Herzog, Kessler & Balderrama, 2008 |
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The Yungas Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias weedeni) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers. It is, as suggested by its common name, restricted to humid and semi-humid forest in the Yungas of north-western Bolivia and far south-eastern Peru. Although discovered in the early 1990s, it was only formally described in 2008.
The Yungas Tyrannulet resembles the Planalto Tyrannulet, but has a different voice. Being recently described it has not yet been rated by BirdLife International; however, it has been suggested it should be considered vulnerable, because it occurs in low densities within a small range that is subjected to extensive habitat destruction.