Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

Hemitriccus kaempferi

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableEndemicInvertebratesForestTiny · 9 g

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Kaempfer's tody-tyrant is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a buffy olive crown and buffy face, sometimes with some rufous. Their back and rump are dark olive. Their wings are dark olive with wide pale yellow or greenish yellow outer webs on the innermost secondaries. Their wing coverts have buffish yellow-olive tips that show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky olive with pale tips on the outer feathers. Their throat is yellow to buff and their breast is dull ochraceous buff with a greenish olive wash. Voice: The primary vocalization of Kaempfer's tody-tyrant is a "high-pitched, nasal, strident and raspy 'kuı´t-kuı´t' or 'kwit-kwit', sometimes given as 'kwit kwit-kwit kwit-kwit-kwit-kwit' ".

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When to see the Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

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

Where to see the Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

Regular range

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About the Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

Kaempfer's tody-tyrant is a rare species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is native to the Serra do Mar coastal forests.

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