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Lemon-browed Flycatcher

Conopias cinchoneti

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCavity nestSmall · 25 g
Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 1
Photo: Ryan F. Mandelbaum · CC BY 4.0
Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 2
Photo: RJ Baltierra · CC BY 4.0
Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 3
Photo: Jonathan Juan Chancasana Villacorta · CC BY 4.0
Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 4
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Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 5
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Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 6
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Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 7
Photo: Brooke Smith · CC BY 4.0
Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 8
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Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 9
Photo: scaup · CC BY 4.0
Lemon-browed Flycatcher (Conopias cinchoneti), photo 10
Photo: Brooke Smith · CC BY 4.0

What the Lemon-browed Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Lemon-browed Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Napo: 'Cabañas San Isidro', 1-2 km SW Cosanga, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Lemon-browed Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Napo: "Estación Científica Guaycuyacu", ca. 3 km S Cosanga, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Lemon-browed Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Duet · Napo: "Estación Científica Guaycuyacu", ca. 3 km S Cosanga, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The lemon-browed flycatcher is 15.5 to 16 cm (6.1 to 6.3 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have an olive-green crown and face with a bright grayish yellow forehead and a wide pale yellow supercilium that wraps almost all the way around the nape. Their upperparts are dark olive. Their wings are dusky brownish with paler edges on the tertials. Their tail is dusky brownish. Their chin, throat, and underparts are bright yellow with an olive tinge on the sides of the breast. Subspecies C. c. Voice: The lemon-browed flycatcher's call is distinctive, "an odd high-pitched nasal, twittering and petulant-sounding whee-ee-ee-ee, wheedidididídí-dí or pa'treeer-pa'treeer-pa'treeer".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Lemon-browed 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 Lemon-browed Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Ecuador Peru Venezuela

About the Lemon-browed Flycatcher

The lemon-browed flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and possibly Bolivia.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Three-striped Flycatcher (Conopias trivirgatus) Three-striped FlycatcherConopias trivirgatusThe three-striped flycatcher is the smallest member of genus Conopias. White-ringed Flycatcher (Conopias albovittatus) White-ringed FlycatcherConopias albovittatusThe white-ringed flycatcher is 15 to 16.5 cm (5.9 to 6.5 in) long and weighs about 24 g (0.85 oz). Yellow-throated Flycatcher (Conopias parvus) Yellow-throated FlycatcherConopias parvusThe yellow-throated flycatcher is 15 to 16.5 cm (5.9 to 6.5 in) long and weighs about 21 g (0.74 oz).

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