Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher

Poecilotriccus capitalis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 8 g

What the Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, song · Zamora-Chinchipe: above 'Cabañas Yankuam' 2 km S Las Orchideas, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: above 'Cabañas Yankuam' 2 km S Las Orchideas, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Zamora-Chinchipe: 'Cabañas Yankuam' 2 km S Las Orchideas, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The black-and-white tody-flycatcher is about 9 to 9.5 cm (3.5 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 5.6 to 8 g (0.20 to 0.28 oz). Adult males have an almost entirely glossy black head and upperparts. They have a small white spot above their lores, a white eye-ring, and wide pale yellow edges on their tertials. Their throat and underparts are mostly white, with streaky black on the sides of the breast that sometimes extends in a thin band across the breast, and a pale yellow tinge on the flanks and crissum. Females have a chestnut crown and buffy lores and eye-ring on an otherwise mostly gray face. Voice: The black-and-white tody-flycatcher's call is a "fast sharp 'tik, t-r-r-r-r-r-r-ew' ", and when agitated it give a "more explosive 'tk, tk, tk, whey-whey-whey-whuh' ".

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When to see the Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher

The black-and-white tody-flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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