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What the Choco Tyrannulet sounds like
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The Choco tyrannulet is 10.5 to 11.5 cm (4.1 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 6.6 to 8.6 g (0.23 to 0.30 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mottled yellow forehead, dusky lores, a yellow supercilium, a dark stripe through the eye, and golden-brown ear coverts. Their crown, back, and rump are dark olive. Their wings are dusky with yellow edges on the coverts and flight feathers. Their tail is dusky. Their throat is whitish, their breast pale gray with a pale yellow tinge on the sides, their belly whitish, and their vent area pale yellow. Voice: The Choco tyrannulet's dawn song is a "querulous, ascending 'treeu, tree-ree-ree-ree?' " and its call is "a simple 'cheli'...repeated over and over".
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When to see the Choco Tyrannulet
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Choco Tyrannulet
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Choco Tyrannulet
The Choco tyrannulet is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.
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Easily confused with
Guianan TyrannuletZimmerius acerThe Guianan tyrannulet is 9 to 12 cm (3.5 to 4.7 in) long and weighs 5.7 to 11 g (0.20 to 0.39 oz).
Mistletoe TyrannuletZimmerius parvusThe mistletoe tyrannulet is about 9.5 to 10 cm (3.7 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 8.5 to 10 g (0.30 to 0.35 oz).
Spectacled TyrannuletZimmerius improbusThe spectacled tyrannulet is about 11.5 to 12.5 cm (4.5 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz).
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