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What the Grey-crowned Flatbill sounds like



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The gray-crowned flatbill is 12 to 12.5 cm (4.7 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a mostly gray head with a whitish stripe above the lores, a faint whitish eye-ring, and greenish gray ear coverts. Their back, rump, uppertail coverts are olive. Their wings are blackish with yellow edges on the coverts and remiges that appear as two wing bars and sometimes a pale speculum. Their throat is greenish, their breast and flanks olive, and their belly and vent pale yellow. Subspecies T. p. Voice: The grey-crowned flatbill's vocalizations vary among the subspecies. The nominate's song is described as "a repeated, inflected, somewhat wheezy fiwee?" which may be given in a short series or with pauses of one or two seconds between notes. A similar description is "a rising series of clear rising or rising-falling whistles, last notes quavering tuee? tuee? TUEE? tuEEuEE? tuEEuEE?. Subspecies T.
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When to see the Grey-crowned Flatbill
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 Grey-crowned Flatbill
The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Grey-crowned Flatbill
The grey-crowned flatbill or grey-crowned flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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Easily confused with
Orange-eyed FlatbillTolmomyias trayloriThe orange-eyed flatbill is about 13.5 cm (5.3 in) long; one male weighed 11.5 g (0.41 oz).
Yellow-winged FlatbillTolmomyias flavotectusThe yellow-winged flatbill is 13 to 13.5 cm (5.1 to 5.3 in) long and weighs about 15 g (0.53 oz).
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