Spectacled tyrannulet


The spectacled tyrannulet, specious tyrannulet or mountain tyrannulet is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It occurs in Venezuela and Colombia.
The spectacled tyrannulet was described in 1871 by the English naturalists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin under the binomial name Tyranniscus improbus. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Guatemalan tyrannulet.
There are two subspecies: