Grey-and-white Tyrannulet

Pseudelaenia leucospodia

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesShrublandCup nestTiny · 12 g

What the Grey-and-white Tyrannulet sounds like

Sonogram of the Grey-and-white Tyrannulet: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Dawn song · Guayas: 3 km E Pacoa Beach, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Grey-and-white Tyrannulet: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Guayas: 3 km E Punta Blanca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Grey-and-white Tyrannulet: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Guayas: 3 km E Punta Blanca, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The grey-and-white tyrannulet is about 12.5 cm (4.9 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a pale grayish brown crown with a shaggy crest whose white center is exposed when erect. They have a white supercilium and a black line through the eye on an otherwise grayish white face. Their upperparts are pale grayish brown and their tail gray. Their wings are dusky with narrow white edges on the flight feathers and coverts; they show as wing bars on the latter. Voice: The grey-and-white tyrannulet's dawn song is "a squeaky pit'i'pew or sneezy pit'chew interspersed with a rising weee-wit" and its call is "a squeaky, nasal tchuEE? or tchu'bit".

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When to see the Grey-and-white Tyrannulet

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 Grey-and-white Tyrannulet

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Grey-and-white Tyrannulet

The grey-and-white tyrannulet is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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