Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant

Hemitriccus rufigularis

Least ConcernLegendaryInvertebratesWoodlandDomed nestTiny · 9 g

About the Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant

The buff-throated tody-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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The buff-throated tody-tyrant is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 7.8 to 9.8 g (0.28 to 0.35 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a grayish buff crown and nape. They have an indistinct buffy white eye-ring on and otherwise cinnamon buff face. Their back and rump are olive green. Their wings and tail are olive green with greenish yellow edges on the flight feathers and tail feathers. Their throat and breast are pale cinnamon buff with faint gray streaks, their belly is whitish with a yellow tinge and gray mottling on the flanks, and their undertail coverts are pale yellow. Voice: The buff-throated tody-tyrant's song is "a slow series of 1–5 rising, mewed, nasal dweep or dwip notes" and its call "a more rapid, rising series of notes: dew-dew-dew-DEWP-DEWP?".

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What the Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant sounds like

Recording: Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Recording: Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Recording: Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Where it lives

Regular rangeRare visitor

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

When to see it

Peak activity in August · a resident species across most of its range

Easily confused with

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