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The Inca flycatcher is 12 to 13.5 cm (4.7 to 5.3 in) long; two individuals weighed 11.5 g (0.41 oz) and a third 13 g (0.46 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark olive or brownish olive crown. Their face is mostly mottled blackish and whitish with a thin whitish eye-ring. Their back and rump are olive green. Their wings are dusky with olivaceous edges on the flight feathers. Their wing coverts are dusky with ochraceous tips that show as two wing bars. Their tail is warm dusky olive. Voice: The Inca flycatcher's song is "a squeaky skleew-di-wurdee?" and its calls "a series of 1–5 skleew...and sharp pik notes".
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When to see the Inca Flycatcher
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 Inca Flycatcher
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About the Inca Flycatcher
The Inca flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Peru.
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Easily confused with
Rufous-breasted FlycatcherLeptopogon rufipectusThe rufous-breasted flycatcher is 13 to 13.5 cm (5.1 to 5.3 in) long; six individuals weighed 10 to 18 g (0.35 to 0.63 oz).
Sepia-capped FlycatcherLeptopogon amaurocephalusThe sepia-capped flycatcher is 11.5 to 14 cm (4.5 to 5.5 in) long and weighs an average of about 12 g (0.42 oz).
Slaty-capped FlycatcherLeptopogon superciliarisThe slaty-capped flycatcher is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 9.5 to 14.8 g (0.34 to 0.52 oz).
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