Cinnamon-crested Spadebill

Platyrinchus saturatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 11 g

What the Cinnamon-crested Spadebill sounds like

Sonogram of the Cinnamon-crested Spadebill: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pastaza: Kapawi area, left bank Río Pastaza, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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The cinnamon-crested spadebill is 9 to 9.5 cm (3.5 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 8.8 to 15 g (0.31 to 0.53 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a mostly dark rufous-brown head with a partially concealed orange-rufous patch on the crown, a buffish white spot above the lores, and an inconspicuous pale eye-ring. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are dark rufous-brown. Their wings are mostly dark rufous-brown with a dusky patch at the base of the primaries and rufescent edges on all the flight feathers. Their tail is stubby and dark rufous-brown. Voice: The subspecies of the cinnamon-crested spadebill have different vocalizations. In Venezuela the nominate gives "a sharp, nasal squik!" that rises, or a "more double-sounding squik-ik!". Those calls have also been described as a "high, sharp whit or whit-it" and "a simple, sharp, kwip, sometimes doubled to a kwi-dip or lengthened to a kwip, kwi-di-dip".

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When to see the Cinnamon-crested Spadebill

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 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-crested Spadebill

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 2 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, Peru.

About the Cinnamon-crested Spadebill

The cinnamon-crested spadebill is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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