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What the Black-crowned Tityra sounds like
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The black-capped tityra is 16.5 to 20.5 cm (6.5 to 8.1 in) long and weighs 33.8 to 70 g (1.2 to 2.5 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males of the nominate subspecies T. i. inquisitor have a mostly black head. Their nape and upperparts are whitish gray with a pearly gray cast. Their wings are mostly black with grayish white tertials. Their tail is black. Their throat and underparts are white. Adult females have a buffy forehead and a black cap on an otherwise chestnut or rusty face. Voice: The black-crowned tityra is not highly vocal. It does make a variety of calls including "a husky grunting or dry guttural...variable sheh-shehk, squik or zick-zick-zick, and a series of low, weak, and nasal chet-chut, chaa-cherp notes". It also makes a "nasal grunting with buzzy quality, uurnt or uurnt-uurnt strange thin corre corre call".
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When to see the Black-crowned Tityra
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-crowned Tityra
The map shades 18 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Black-crowned Tityra
The black-crowned tityra is a medium-sized passerine bird. It is found in Mexico, every Central American country except El Salvador, and every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay.
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Easily confused with
Black-tailed TityraTityra cayanaThis is a robust, short-tailed bird with a long, hook-tipped bill; like other tityras, it has a peculiar vestigial ninth primary feather.
White-tailed TityraTityra leucuraWhite-tailed tityra is the smallest of its genus.
Masked TityraTityra semifasciataThe masked tityra is 20 to 24 cm (7.9 to 9.4 in) long and weighs 77 to 88 g (2.7 to 3.1 oz).
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