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McConnell's flycatcher is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 8 to 18 g (0.28 to 0.63 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have an olive head, nape, back, and rump. Their wings and tail are dusky olive. Their throat and underparts are rich cinnamon buff with a dark grayish olive wash on the throat and upper breast. Subspecies M. m. peruanus has brighter olive upperparts than the nominate, with an ochraceous tinge to them. Their wing's greater coverts have cinnamon edges. Voice: Ornithologists have defined three groups of vocalizations by McConnell's flycatcher. North of the Amazon it makes a "raspy song", a "series of unmelodious raspy to buzzy notes rreh-rreh-rreh-rreh-rreh" and a "twangy song", a "peculiar low-pitched nasal phrase initiated by a single descending note and followed by a trilled series of notes tyang!-tininininininininin".
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When to see the McConnell's 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 McConnell's Flycatcher
The map shades 7 countries 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 McConnell's Flycatcher
McConnell's flycatcher is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
Olive-striped FlycatcherMionectes olivaceusThe olive-streaked flycatcher is 13 cm (5.1 in) long.
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