About the Bahia Tyrannulet
The Bahia tyrannulet is an Endangered species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to the Brazilian states of Bahia and Minas Gerais.
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The Bahia tyrannulet is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 7.5 to 9 g (0.26 to 0.32 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a buffy stripe from the lores that becomes creamy whitish past the eye, a buffy eye-ring, and a dusky line through the eye that continues to the rear and sweeps around the dark yellowish ear coverts. Their crown, nape, back, and rump are bright olive-green with a grayish center to the crown. Their wings are dusky olive with pale yellow edges on the flight feathers. Their wing coverts have yellow tips that form two wing bars. Voice: The Bahia tyrannulet's song is described as faint and twittery with short trills. Pairs make very soft "tik" contact calls.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Minas Gerais TyrannuletPhylloscartes roquetteiThe Minas Gerais tyrannulet is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs about 8 g (0.28 oz).
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