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The Maracaibo tody-flycatcher is 9 to 10.2 cm (3.5 to 4.0 in) long. The sexes are alike. Adults have a black forecrown and a gray hindcrown and nape. Their lores and the area around their eyes are black. They have a mostly hidden yellowish white patch on the forehead and another above their lores. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are pale olive. Their wings are black with wide buff-yellow edges on the flight feathers and the edges and tips of the coverts; the last show as two wing bars. Their tail is quite short; it is black with white edges and tips of the feathers. Voice: The Maracaibo tody-flycatcher's song is a series of "ca. 6 sharp seek! notes".
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When to see the Maracaibo Tody-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 Maracaibo Tody-Flycatcher
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.
About the Maracaibo Tody-Flycatcher
The Maracaibo tody-flycatcher, also known as the short-tailed tody-flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-browed Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum chrysocrotaphumThe yellow-browed tody-flycatcher is 8.6 to 10 cm (3.4 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 7 g (0.25 oz).
Spotted Tody-FlycatcherTodirostrum maculatumThe spotted tody-flycatcher is 8.9 to 10.2 cm (3.5 to 4.0 in) long and weighs 6.4 to 8.3 g (0.23 to 0.29 oz).
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