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WoodlandCup nestTiny · 11 g
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The bicolored conebill is 11.4 cm long and weighs 11 g. The adult is grey-blue above and buff-tinged grey below, with red eyes, pink legs and a sharp, pointed bill. The primary flight feathers are bluish with brown edgings. The sexes are similar, although the female may be a little duller, but immature birds are greenish above and have pale yellow underparts. Birds sometimes breed in immature plumage. It is similar to the pearly-breasted conebill, alongside which it occurs in the Amazon.
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When to see the Bicolored Conebill
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Bicolored Conebill
The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Bicolored Conebill
The bicolored conebill is a small passerine bird. This member of the tanager family is a resident breeder in South America from Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad south and east to the Guianas, northeast Peru and Brazil.
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Easily confused with
Rufous-browed ConebillConirostrum rufumThe rufous-browed conebill is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
White-eared ConebillConirostrum leucogenysThe white-eared conebill is a small (7g) bird.
Blue-backed ConebillConirostrum sitticolorThe blue-backed conebill is a small bird, weighing 11-13g.
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