About the Hazel-fronted Pygmy Tyrant
The hazel-fronted pygmy tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.
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The hazel-fronted pygmy tyrant is 11 to 11.5 cm (4.3 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 9 to 11 g (0.32 to 0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly dark brownish-olive head, upperparts, and tail. Their crown is slightly darker than their back and has a bushy crest that is only rarely raised. Their forecrown ("front") is bronzy; it and their lores, eye ring, and sides of the head have a strong rufous tinge. Their wings are also dark brownish-olive, but with diffuse warmer brown to rufous edges to the coverts and inner flight feathers. Voice: The hazel-fronted pygmy tyrant is not highly vocal. Its song is "a high, thin trill followed by a pair of trills that fall, then rise, ending with a hiccup: tsee? tseeeeu-tseee'ip". Its call is "a rising tssuuueee?" that sometimes is stuttered.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in August · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Bronze-olive Pygmy TyrantPseudotriccus pelzelniThe bronze-olive pygmy tyrant is 11 to 11.5 cm (4.3 to 4.5 in) long and weighs 9 to 11 g (0.32 to 0.39 oz).
Rufous-headed Pygmy TyrantPseudotriccus ruficepsThe rufous-headed pygmy tyrant is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 7 to 9 g (0.25 to 0.32 oz).
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