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Long-tailed Tyrant

Colonia colonus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCavity nestSmall · 18 g
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 1
Photo: Under the same moon... · CC BY 2.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 2
Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 3
Photo: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 4
Photo: ChrisMcV · CC0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 5
Photo: Guy Babineau · CC BY 4.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 6
Photo: Roger A. Morales-Flores · CC BY 4.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 7
Photo: filipeprates · CC BY 4.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 8
Photo: Josh Noseworthy · CC BY 4.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 9
Photo: filipeprates · CC BY 4.0
Long-tailed Tyrant (Colonia colonus), photo 10
Photo: Carter Dorscht · CC0

What the Long-tailed Tyrant sounds like

Sonogram of the Long-tailed Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Esmeraldas: Canandé, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Long-tailed Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Dawn song · Zamora-Chinchipe: 'Cabañas Yankuam' 2 km S Las Orchideas, Nangaritza Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Long-tailed Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Esmeraldas: Canandé Botrosa Road end, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

Male long-tailed tyrants are 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11 in) and females 18 to 22 cm (7.1 to 8.7 in) long; these measurements do not include the elongated central tail feathers. Adults weigh 15 to 18 g (0.53 to 0.63 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies C. c. colonus are mostly dull black with a white forehead and forecrown, a whitish rump, and a grayish black belly. Their central pair of tail feathers can extend up to 13 cm (5.1 in) beyond the others and have somewhat widened tips. They are often worn or broken. Voice: The long-tailed tyrant's a soft, rising, call variously written as "sweeE", "wheet", "sweee?", "weee?", and "weé-uw". Males sing "a longer twee-la, twee-la, twee-la", a "musical, humming druu" while whipping the tail, and a "sharp, sibilant chip in interactions".

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When to see the Long-tailed Tyrant

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 Long-tailed Tyrant

Regular range

The map shades 15 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Costa Rica Colombia Panama Peru Ecuador Argentina Venezuela Paraguay Suriname Honduras Guyana Bolivia Nicaragua French Guiana

About the Long-tailed Tyrant

The long-tailed tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Central America from Honduras to Panama and in every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay.

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Easily confused with

Bran-colored Flycatcher (Myiophobus fasciatus) Bran-colored FlycatcherMyiophobus fasciatusThe bran-colored flycatcher is 11 to 14 cm (4.3 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 7.1 to 17 g (0.25 to 0.60 oz). Austral Negrito (Lessonia rufa) Austral NegritoLessonia rufaThe austral negrito is 11.5 to 12.5 cm (4.5 to 4.9 in) long. White-crested Tyrannulet (Serpophaga subcristata) White-crested TyrannuletSerpophaga subcristataThe white-crested tyrannulet is 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 6 to 8.6 g (0.21 to 0.30 oz).

Side by side: Bran-colored Flycatcher vs Long-tailed Tyrant · Austral Negrito vs Long-tailed Tyrant · Long-tailed Tyrant vs White-crested Tyrannulet

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