Black-capped Becard

Pachyramphus marginatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestSmall · 18 g

What the Black-capped Becard sounds like

Sonogram of the Black-capped Becard: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Sucumbíos: 'La Selva Jungle Lodge', n bank Río Napo, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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The black-capped becard is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs about 18 g (0.63 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a glossy black crown that has a blue sheen and a scaly appearance. They have a pale spot above the lores and a thin whitish eye-ring on an otherwise light gray face. The gray of their face wraps around their nape as a collar. Their back is variable from gray to black and their rump is gray. Their wings are mostly black with white scapulars and widish white edges on the coverts and flight feathers; the white shows as two wing bars. Voice: The black-capped becard's dawn song is "a soft, delicate...tew, tew’tweet that rises sharply". Its principle day song is a variable "short melancholy series of clear musical notes" written as "teeu, whee-do-weét, twee-twee-tee-eet, dear-dear or tewtewtewteé, dew-dew". It also makes "a quickly repeated fleur-de-lis phrase" and even-pitched trills "teeu, tee-tee-tee-te-ti or tre-tre’tre-e-e-e-e-it".

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When to see the Black-capped Becard

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

Where to see the Black-capped Becard

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Black-capped Becard

The black-capped becard is a species of bird in the family Tityridae, the tityras, becards, and allies. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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