The Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant was recorded in the understory of Colombia’s western Andes. At La Linda, observers heard a few individuals daily and captured an adult male in dense Chusquea bamboo.
The Corpoamazonía guide describes a gray head, olive back, a conspicuous white patch behind the eye, and gray-and-yellow streaking below.
A few individuals were heard daily in La Linda’s forest understory; an adult male was caught in dense Chusquea bamboo.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.