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Grey-headed Piprites

Piprites griseiceps

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestSmall · 16 g
Grey-headed Piprites (Piprites griseiceps), photo 1
Photo: Alfonso Auerbach · CC0
Grey-headed Piprites (Piprites griseiceps), photo 2
Photo: Alfonso Auerbach (@alf_auerbach) · CC0
Grey-headed Piprites (Piprites griseiceps), photo 3
Photo: Bale & Danielsson; Bannwarth, Th.; Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company; Godman, Frederick Du Cane; Hanhart; Horman-Fisher, Maud; Knight, H.; Mintern Bros.; Purkiss, W.; Salvin, Osbert; Saunders, G. S.; Schlereth, M. v.; Sharp, M. A.; Taylor & Francis; Wilson, Edwin · Public domain
Grey-headed Piprites (Piprites griseiceps), photo 4
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The grey-headed piprites is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs about 16 g (0.56 oz). It is considered as having an especially long tail among similar species. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a slate-gray head with a bold white eyering. Their upperparts, wings, and tail are olive-green with yellow-green edges on their flight feathers. Their underparts are yellowish olive that is lightest on their throat and belly. They have a dark iris, a blackish maxilla, a paler mandible, and gray legs and feet. Voice: The grey-headed piprites' song is "an undulating two-second phrase of quick, sputtering notes". One call is "a liquid whit!". Another is "a soft, liquid, rolling 'purrr'".

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When to see the Grey-headed Piprites

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Grey-headed Piprites

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 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.

Costa Rica Honduras Nicaragua

Recorded as a rare visitor in Panama.

About the Grey-headed Piprites

The grey-headed piprites is a species of bird in subfamily Pipritinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Prior to genetic studies in 2009, it was placed in the family Pipritinae with the manakins.

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Easily confused with

Black-capped Piprites (Piprites pileata) Black-capped PipritesPiprites pileataThe adult black-capped piprites is a tyranid with a black cap and yellow beak. Wing-barred Piprites (Piprites chloris) Wing-barred PipritesPiprites chlorisThe wing-barred piprites is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 15 to 21 g (0.53 to 0.74 oz).

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