Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant

Hemitriccus mirandae

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableEndemicInvertebratesForestTiny · 9 g

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The buff-breasted tody-tyrant is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a darkish olive crown and pale creamy buff face. Their back and rump are darkish olive. Their wings are dusky olive with wide creamy edges on the innermost secondaries. Their tail is dusky olive. Their throat and breast are pale creamy buff, their belly more whitish, and their crissum pale yellow. They have an orange iris, a gray maxilla, a paler mandible, and gray to pale pinkish legs and feet. Voice: The buff-breasted tody-tyrant's song is a "short series of 7-8 sharp, well-accentuated notes, slightly accelerating and ascending". It has been written as "kt-kit-kit-kiit-kiit-kiiit-kit".

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When to see the Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant

Regular range

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About the Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant

The buff-breasted tody-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Brazil.

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