Black-crested Tit-Tyrant

Anairetes nigrocristatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesShrublandTiny · 7 g

What the Black-crested Tit-Tyrant sounds like

Sonogram of the Black-crested Tit-Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Dawn song · Loja: Bosque de Hanne, 2 km WSW Utuana, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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The black-crested tit-tyrant is 13 cm (5.1 in) long. It is the largest and most boldly patterned member of its genus. Adult males have a dramatic black crest formed by elongated feathers of the central crown. The rest of their crown and their nape are white and the rest of their head is black. Their upperparts are black with thin white streaks. Their wings are black with wide white edges on the flight feathers. Their wing coverts have wide white tips that show as two bars on the closed wing. Voice: The black-crested tit-tyrant's calls are a "squeaky sputtered trreek! trreek! trreek!, a descending, squeaky, chattered tee! titititititer, and a rising-falling trrreeeer".

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When to see the Black-crested Tit-Tyrant

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-crested Tit-Tyrant

Regular range

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

About the Black-crested Tit-Tyrant

The black-crested tit-tyrant or Marañón tit-tyrant is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

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