Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus cinnamomeipectus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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What the Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant sounds like

Sonogram of the Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW Las Orchideas, above "Cabañas Yankuam", Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Chinapinza at 1700 m, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The buff-breasted tody-tyrant is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long; eight individuals weighed 6.5 to 8.5 g (0.23 to 0.30 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark olive green crown and nape with a brownish wash. They have cinnamon lores, eye-ring, and ear coverts and a darkish gray cheek. Their back and rump are olive green. Their wings are dusky with olive yellow edges on all the flight feathers and much white on the secondaries. Their tail is dusky with olive yellow edges on the feathers. Voice: The cinnamon-breasted tody-tyrant's song is "a tinkling, descending, rapid trill: tEEEeeeerrrrr" and its call "a series of rising, mewed weeb notes".

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When to see the Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador

About the Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant

The cinnamon-breasted tody-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

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Easily confused with

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). Pelzeln's Tody-TyrantHemitriccus inornatusPelzeln's tody-tyrant is about 9 cm (3.5 in) long and weighs 7.7 to 9 g (0.27 to 0.32 oz). Acre Tody-TyrantHemitriccus cohnhaftiThe Acre tody-tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long; one male weighed 9 g (0.32 oz).

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