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The brown-breasted bamboo tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 9 to 11 g (0.32 to 0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a plain brownish olive crown. They have a buffy spot above the lores and a pale buffy eye-ring on an otherwise brownish face. Their back and rump are plain brownish olive. Their wings are plain brownish olive and their tail is dusky. Their throat and breast are dingy buff with a faint buffy crescent between them. Their belly is buffy ochraceous and their crissum buffy with a yellow tinge. Subspecies H. o.
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When to see the Brown-breasted Bamboo Tyrant
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Brown-breasted Bamboo Tyrant
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Argentina.
About the Brown-breasted Bamboo Tyrant
The brown-breasted bamboo tyrant or brown-breasted pygmy-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina and Brazil.
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Easily confused with
Fork-tailed Tody-TyrantHemitriccus furcatusThe fork-tailed tody-tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long.
Johannes's Tody-TyrantHemitriccus iohannisJohannes's tody-tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 9.2 to 12.7 g (0.32 to 0.45 oz).
Flammulated Bamboo TyrantHemitriccus flammulatusThe brown-breasted bamboo tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 8.8 to 11.7 g (0.31 to 0.41 oz).
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