Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant

Hemitriccus furcatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 9 g

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The fork-tailed tody-tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long. Adults have a distinctive tail whose outer feathers are longer than the inner ones and curve slightly inwards; males' tails are somewhat more deeply forked than females'. The sexes otherwise have the same plumage. They have a bright cinnamon-brown forehead and a brownish olive crown and nape. They have a pale cinnamon-buff spot above the lores and a pale cinnamon buff eye-ring on an otherwise cocoa-brown to cinnamon face. Their back and rump are bright olive. Voice: The fork-tailed tody-tyrant's song is a "short, dry, hurried, temperamental-sounding rattle, like 't-drrrit' ('t' lower)".

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When to see the Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant

The fork-tailed tody-tyrant or fork-tailed pygmy tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Brazil.

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