Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Lophotriccus

Scale-crested Pygmy Tyrant

Lophotriccus pileatus

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

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Lophotriccus pileatus hypochlorus

Andes of southeastern Peru (Cusco and Puno)
Lophotriccus pileatus luteiventris

highlands of Costa Rica to eastern Panama (Darién)
Lophotriccus pileatus pileatus

Andes of eastern Ecuador and Peru (southward to northern Cusco)
Lophotriccus pileatus santaeluciae

Sierra de Perijá (Colombia/Venezuela border) and northeastern and northern Venezuela (from western Zulia eastward to northwestern Anzoátegui and southward to Táchira)
Lophotriccus pileatus squamaecrista

Andes of Colombia, southward through the foothills and lowlands of western Ecuador to far northwestern Peru (Tumbes)

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.