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What the Choco Sirystes sounds like

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The Choco sirystes is 17.5 to 19 cm (6.9 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 32 to 36 g (1.1 to 1.3 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a black crown with a slight crest. The rest of their face is slate gray. Their nape and back are pale gray, their rump white, and their uppertail coverts dark with white fringes. Their wings are dusky black with wide white edges on the coverts and secondaries. Their tail is dusky with grayish white tips on the feathers. Their throat and upper breast are grayish white that becomes white on the rest of the underparts. Voice: The Choco sirystes' most frequent call is "a husky shup-chip-chip or prup-prip-prip-prip". When it is excited it gives "a much faster che-che-che-che-che-che-chut".
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When to see the Choco Sirystes
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Choco Sirystes
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Choco Sirystes
The Choco sirystes, formerly known as the western sirystes, is a species of passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.
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Easily confused with
Todd's SirystesSirystes subcanescensTodd's sirystes is 18 to 18.5 cm (7.1 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 34 to 36.5 g (1.2 to 1.3 oz).
White-rumped SirystesSirystes albocinereusThe white-rumped sirystes is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 24 to 32 g (0.85 to 1.1 oz).
Sibilant SirystesSirystes sibilatorThe sibilant sirystes is 18 to 18.5 cm (7.1 to 7.3 in) long and weighs about 26 to 28 g (0.92 to 0.99 oz).
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