Black-billed Flycatcher

Aphanotriccus audax

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedInvertebratesForestTiny · 11 g

What the Black-billed Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Black-billed Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Oliver Komar · Call, song · Darién Province, Panama · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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The black-billed flycatcher is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long. The sexes are thought to have the same plumage. Adult males have an olive-gray crown, a thin white eye-ring, and a white stripe above the lores. Their upperparts are bright greenish olive. Their wings are dusky with pale buff ends on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is rather long and dusky brown. Their throat is white, their upper breast white with a faint olive wash, and their lower breast and belly are yellowish to greenish. They have a dark iris, a short black bill, and blackish legs and feet. Voice: The black-billed flycatcher is not highly vocal. Its song is "a loud, sharply enunciated but wheezy or burry bee béé, be-be-be-bez, jee-jee-jew or fainter bee-beez-bez-baw".

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When to see the Black-billed Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-billed Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Black-billed Flycatcher

The black-billed flycatcher is a Near Threatened species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia and Panama.

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