Cinnamon Flycatcher

Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 10 g

What the Cinnamon Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Cinnamon Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: Reserva Tapichalaca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Cinnamon Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: Reserva Tapichalaca, near Q. Cristopher Parson, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Cinnamon Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Loja: between Selva Alegre and Manu, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The cinnamon flycatcher is 11 to 13 cm (4.3 to 5.1 in) long and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies P. c. cinnamomeus have a dark brownish crown with a partially hidden yellow patch in the center. They have a faint buffy eye-ring and patch above the lores, olive-brown cheeks and nape, and cinnamon-rufous sides of the neck. Their upperparts are olive-brown with a thin, often hidden, cinnamon-orange band on the rump. Voice: The cinnamon flycatcher does not have a dawn song. Its calls include a "dull, low-pitched...rattle, pti-i-i-i-i, spit out rather abruptly", a "stuttering pit, pti-pit-it", and "a few chip, tsip and pit notes". Another description of its main call is "a low-pitched dry rattling tr-r-r-r-r-r or dr-r-r-r-r-r".

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When to see the Cinnamon Flycatcher

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 Cinnamon Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Cinnamon Flycatcher

The cinnamon flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

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