Ashy-headed greenlet
The ashy-headed greenlet is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy and systematics
The ashy-headed greenlet is monotypic. It and the olivaceous greenlet are sister species.Description
The ashy-headed greenlet is long and weighs. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dull gray forehead, crown, and nape. They have a dull grayish white supercilium and grayish ear coverts. Their upperparts are dull greenish. Their wings and tail are dull greenish with brighter greenish edges on the feathers. Their chin is off-white, their throat mottled grayish white, their breast greenish yellow, their flanks grayish, and their belly dull white. They have a brown or orangey-brown iris, a dark brown maxilla, a lighter brown mandible, and pink-brown legs and feet. Juveniles have a more buffy crown than adults.Distribution and habitat
The ashy-headed greenlet has a disjunct distribution. Its main range forms a rough backwards "E" shape that is mostly in the northern and central Amazon Basin. That range begins in extreme northern Brazil and Guyana and extends east across northern Suriname and French Guiana to the Atlantic in northeastern Brazil. From there it extends in Brazil southeast to Maranhão and westward up the lower Amazon River. It continues southwest in Brazil to Mato Grosso do Sul and west to Rondônia and then across northern Bolivia. It is known from a single record in northeastern Venezuela's Delta Amacuro state and separately in the middle valley of the Huallaga River in Peru's Department of San Martín.The ashy-headed greenlet inhabits deciduous forest and woodlands, riverine forest, plantations, gardens, and the edges of mangrove forest. In elevation it ranges from sea level to in most of its range. It reaches at least in Peru.