Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher

Poecilotriccus senex

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebratesForestTiny · 7 g

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The buff-cheeked tody-flycatcher is about 9 cm (3.5 in) long. Adult males have a slate-gray forehead and forecrown with black spots and a dark olive hindcrown whose feathers extend slightly to a crest. Their face is mostly light pinkish cinnamon. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are bright olive. Their wings are blackish with pale edges on the flight feathers and yellowish white tips on the coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is blackish. Voice: The buff-cheeked tody-flycatcher's song is "a deep, churred trill 'djrrrt', usually preceded by a few 'chup' notes". It also sometimes "gives a series of some fifteen short 'djrrrt' notes, slightly descending in pitch".

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When to see the Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Buff-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher

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

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