Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 3 — Photo: (c) RJ Baltierra, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Amber M. King, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 5 — Photo: (c) harrier, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Dan Vickers, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Morten Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Kristiina Hurme, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Crowned Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix frontalis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Ryan F. Mandelbaum, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Crowned Chat-Tyrant sounds like

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

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Bolívar: 10 km NW Salinas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, chase calls · Zamora-Chinchipe: Quebrada Calderón, upper Río Isimanchi, Cordillera Las Lagunillas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Zamora-Chinchipe: Quebrada Honda, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The crowned chat-tyrant is 12.5 to 13 cm (4.9 to 5.1 in) long. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a dark brown crown and a yellow forecrown that continues and becomes white as a supercilium past the eye on an otherwise dark brown face. Their upperparts are dark brown. Their wings and tail are mostly dusky with dusky brown edges on the feathers. Their throat is whitish gray, their breast and upper belly dark gray, their lower belly whitish gray, and their crissum and lower flanks cinnamon to rufous-buff. Voice: The crowned chat-tyrant's song is "a drawn-out rather high-pitched but descending trill, ses-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" that lasts several seconds.

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When to see the Crowned Chat-Tyrant

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 Crowned Chat-Tyrant

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 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.

Ecuador Colombia Peru Bolivia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Venezuela.

About the Crowned Chat-Tyrant

The crowned chat-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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Easily confused with

Kalinowski's Chat-TyrantSilvicultrix spodionotaKalinowski's chat-tyrant is 12.5 to 13 cm (4.9 to 5.1 in) long.

Golden-browed Chat-TyrantSilvicultrix pulchellaThe golden-browed chat-tyrant is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long.

Jelski's Chat-TyrantSilvicultrix jelskiiJelski's chat-tyrant is 12 to 12.5 cm (4.7 to 4.9 in) long.

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