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WoodlandDomed nestTiny · 9 gWhat the Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant sounds like
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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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When to see the Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant
The map shades 3 countries 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 Colombia.
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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Easily confused with
Kaempfer's Tody-TyrantHemitriccus kaempferiKaempfer's tody-tyrant is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long.
Buff-breasted Tody-TyrantHemitriccus mirandaeThe buff-breasted tody-tyrant is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long.
Yungas Tody-TyrantHemitriccus spodiopsThe Yungas tody-tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 6.9 to 7.5 g (0.24 to 0.26 oz).
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