Jelski's Chat-Tyrant

Silvicultrix jelskii

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 12 g

What the Jelski's Chat-Tyrant sounds like

Sonogram of the Jelski's Chat-Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, chase call · Loja: Bosque de Hanne, 2 km WSW Utuana, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Jelski's Chat-Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Loja: Bosque de Hanne, 2 km WSW Utuana, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Jelski's chat-tyrant is 12 to 12.5 cm (4.7 to 4.9 in) long. Adult males have a blackish brown crown and a yellow forecrown that continues and becomes white as a supercilium that extends far past the eye on an otherwise blackish brown face. Their upperparts are rufous-brown, especially on the rump. Their wings are dusky with rufous tips on the coverts that show as two bold wing bars. Their tail is dusky or brownish. Their throat and breast are gray, their belly rufous-tinged gray, and their crissum buffy. Adult females have buffier underparts than males, especially on the lower belly. Voice: The song of Jelski's chat-tyrant is "a high, squeaky tseee! ending with a krrr phrase when excited". Its calls are "squeaky chatters and descending high trills".

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When to see the Jelski's Chat-Tyrant

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Jelski's Chat-Tyrant

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Jelski's Chat-Tyrant

Jelski's chat-tyrant is a species of passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

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