About Elaenia spectabilis Pelzeln, 1868
This species, commonly known as the large elaenia, has a scientific name of Elaenia spectabilis Pelzeln, 1868. The large elaenia measures 16.5 to 18 cm (6.5 to 7.1 in) in length and weighs 20 to 35 g (0.71 to 1.2 oz). It is a large elaenia with a small crest, and both sexes share identical plumage. Adults have a mostly olive-brown head, with either a very faint or no white stripe running down the center of the crest. Their upperparts are dark grayish olive. Their wings are dusky, with white tips on the coverts that form three distinct wing bars. Their tail is dusky. Their throat is grayish, their breast is dark olive-gray, and their belly and undertail coverts are yellow. Both sexes have a dark brown to gray-brown iris, a black bill with a pale pinkish base to the mandible, and black legs and feet. The large elaenia is distributed across the Amazon Basin, ranging from southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia across Brazil. Its range extends south from Amazonia through Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul and southeastern Bolivia into northwestern Argentina, and also through most of Paraguay and far northwestern Uruguay into northeastern Argentina, reaching as far south as southern Buenos Aires Province. It inhabits edges and shrubby interior openings of lowland forest, secondary forest, and early-succession riparian forest. During the winter, it occurs more frequently in riparian zones, including river islands, and areas with fruiting trees.
