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title: "Gelbbauchelaenie"
description: "Elaenia flavogaster — Vögel. The yellow-bellied elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) is a small bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/yellow-bellied-elaenia
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gelbbauchelaenie

> Elaenia flavogaster — Vögel. The yellow-bellied elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) is a small bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers.

- Scientific name: *Elaenia flavogaster*
- Category: `birds` (Vögel)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 6392
- Wikidata: [Q684078](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q684078)
- iNaturalist taxon: [16714](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/16714)

## Names

- en: Yellow-bellied Elaenia
- de: Gelbbauchelaenie
- es: Mosquero Elaenia Copetón
- fr: Élénie à ventre jaune
- nl: Geelbuikelenia
- pt: Guaracava-de-barriga-amarela
- pl: Elenia żółtobrzucha

## Countries with the most observations

CO (957), PA (729), BR (682), CR (497), MX (340), BZ (96), EC (90), HN (87), TT (85), VE (85), GF (76), AR (71)

## Summary

The yellow-bellied elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) is a small bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Mexico, in every Central American country, in every mainland South American country except Chile, on Trinidad and Tobago, and on several islands in the Lesser Antilles.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-bellied_elaenia

## Photo

![Gelbbauchelaenie](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-bellied-elaenia/medium.jpg)

Photo: filipeprates · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365285499

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-bellied-elaenia?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).