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What the Handsome Flycatcher sounds like
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The handsome flycatcher is 9.5 to 11 cm (3.7 to 4.3 in) long. The sexes very similar. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have an olive gray crown with a partly hidden orange-rufous patch in the middle. Both sexes have a white spot above the lores and a white broken eye-ring on an otherwise olive gray face. Their nape is olive gray and their back and rump are olive. Their wings are dusky with ochre and white edges on the flight feathers and wide pale ochre tips on the wing coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their rather short tail is dusky. Voice: The handsome flycatcher's song is "a rather sharp and clear 'tsi-tsi-tsi' ". Its calls include "a high, thin tsew-tsip", "a descending sputtering trill: tseetsititititititew", and "a high, descending series of ringing notes: TEE-ti-ti-ti".
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When to see the Handsome Flycatcher
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Handsome Flycatcher
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Handsome Flycatcher
The handsome flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and possibly Bolivia.
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Easily confused with
Ochraceous-breasted FlycatcherNephelomyias ochraceiventrisThe ochraceous-breasted flycatcher is 12 to 14 cm (4.7 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 8.2 to 13 g (0.29 to 0.46 oz).
Orange-banded FlycatcherNephelomyias lintoniThe orange-banded flycatcher is 12.5 to 13 cm (4.9 to 5.1 in) long; two males weighed 9.5 and 10 g (0.34 and 0.35 oz).
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