Golden-winged Tody-Flycatcher

The golden-winged tody-flycatcher is about 9.5 cm (3.7 in) long and weighs about 6 g (0.21 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly black head with a white throat. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are olive green. Their wings are black with yellowish white edges on the inner flight feathers. Their lesser wing coverts are chestnut and the median coverts bright yellow; the former show on the shoulder and the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is black. Their breast and belly are bright yellow. They have a brown iris, a black bill, and blue-gray legs and feet.

The golden-winged tody-flycatcher is found from Putumayo and Amazonas departments in southern Colombia south on the east slope of the Andes through most of Ecuador and east in northern Peru to central Loreto Department. It inhabits dense shrubby vegetation on the edges and in clearings of humid evergreen forest both primary and secondary and also nearby overgrown fields and gardens. In elevation it ranges between 300 and 1,100 m (1,000 and 3,600 ft) in Colombia, up to 1,300 m (4,300 ft) in Ecuador, and up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in Peru.

The golden-winged tody-flycatcher feeds on insects, though details are lacking. It typically forages in pairs and does not join mixed-species feeding flocks. It mostly forages in dense vegetation within a few meters of the ground. It primarily takes prey from foliage with short upward sallies from a perch; it also takes it while briefly hovering after a short flight.