About the Ochre-lored Flatbill
The ochre-lored flatbill or yellow-breasted flycatcher, is a passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
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The ochre-lored flatbill is about 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs 9 to 17.5 g (0.32 to 0.62 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a yellowish olive head with a brighter ochre-tinged stripe above the lores and a brighter ochre-tinged eye-ring. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are yellowish olive. Their wings are dusky with yellowish edges on the coverts and remiges that appear as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky. Their underparts are bright yellow with an olive to ochre wash on the throat and breast and lightly on the belly. Voice: The ochre-lored flatbill sings "3-5 rather loud, penetrating whistles, sweeEP!....sweeEP!.....sweeEP!, with pauses of 1-several sec between notes". Its call is "a single sweeEP!". It also makes a "mid-high, short fddddddddfit rattle". It usually sings from a well-hidden perch in the forest canopy, and usually around dawn.
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What the Ochre-lored Flatbill sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Yellow-margined FlatbillTolmomyias assimilisThe yellow-margined flatbill is 13 to 13.5 cm (5.1 to 5.3 in) long and weighs 12 to 17.5 g (0.42 to 0.62 oz).
Grey-crowned FlatbillTolmomyias poliocephalusThe gray-crowned flatbill is 12 to 12.5 cm (4.7 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz).
Orange-eyed FlatbillTolmomyias trayloriThe orange-eyed flatbill is about 13.5 cm (5.3 in) long; one male weighed 11.5 g (0.41 oz).
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