About the Buff-banded Tyrannulet
The buff-banded tyrannulet is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru.
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The buff-banded tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a medium gray crown. They have a thin white supercilium and a faint blackish stripe through the eye on an otherwise whitish face. Their upperparts are mostly greenish olive with an ochraceous olive rump and uppertail coverts. Their wings are dusky with pale buffy yellow edges on the flight feathers. Their wing coverts have pale buff tips that show as two bars on the closed wing. Their tail is dusky olive. Voice: The buff-banded tyrannulet's call is "a plaintive, slightly falling pseee or psee-psee-psee" with two to five notes.
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Where it lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in Peru.
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Rufous-winged TyrannuletMecocerculus calopterusThe rufous-winged tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz).
Sulphur-bellied TyrannuletMecocerculus minorThe sulphur-bellied tyrannulet is 11 to 12 cm (4.3 to 4.7 in) long and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz).
White-tailed TyrannuletMecocerculus poecilocercusThe white-tailed tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz).
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