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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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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What the Black-crowned Tityra sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in March · a resident species across most of its range
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