Bird Guide

Three-striped Flycatcher vs White-ringed Flycatcher

Three-striped Flycatcher (Conopias trivirgatus)

Three-striped Flycatcher

Conopias trivirgatus

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The three-striped flycatcher is the smallest member of genus Conopias. It is 13.5 to 14.5 cm (5.3 to 5.7 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies C t. trivirgatus have a dusky brown crown and face with a white supercilium that begins at the lores and wraps all the way around the nape. Their upperparts are pale olive. Their wings are dusky with faint paler tips the coverts and paler edges on the tertials. Their tail is dusky. Their chin, throat, and underparts are bright lemon-yellow with a faint olive tinge on the breast. Subspecies C. t. Voice: The three-striped flycatcher has several calls. The most often heard is "an abrasive and jarring jew or jeeuw, swiftly and frantically repeated". In Peru it makes "a rather thick-sounding and low-pitched chu-burr" that is repeated by a pair several times as a duet. In Brazil it makes an "irregular series of chew-chew-... notes".

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Photo: vinicius_s_domingues · CC BY 4.0
White-ringed Flycatcher (Conopias albovittatus)

White-ringed Flycatcher

Conopias albovittatus

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The white-ringed flycatcher is 15 to 16.5 cm (5.9 to 6.5 in) long and weighs about 24 g (0.85 oz). The sexes have the same plumage; females are slightly smaller than males. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a black to dark sooty brownish crown and face with a mostly hidden lemon-yellow to canary-yellow patch in the center of the crown. They have a white supercilium that begins at the forehead, widens behind the eye, and wraps almost all the way around the nape. Their upperparts vary from grayish olive-green to dark olive or olive-brown. Voice: The white-ringed flycatcher's call is described as very distinctive. It "commences with a long note, followed by rapid, rattling or whirring, repetitive trill, tre-r-r-r-r, tre-r-r-r-r…, kree-ee-ee-eer".

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Sonogram of the White-ringed Flycatcher
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Esmeraldas: left bank Rio Santiago: Playa del Oro, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Don Henise · CC BY 2.0

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