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What the Olive-striped Flycatcher sounds like


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The olive-streaked flycatcher is 13 cm (5.1 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark olive face with white streaks and a small triangular white spot behind the eye. Their crown and nape are dark olive and the rest of their upperparts are warm yellow green. Their wings and tail are dusky olive. Their throat and upper breast have dense dark olive and yellowish white streaking with thinner white streaks. Their lower breast and flanks are streaked with dark olive and yellow and their belly is unstreaked yellow. Voice: The olive-streaked flycatcher is mostly silent outside the breeding season. It usually sings the most at dawn, and usually low to the ground in dense vegetation. Its song is an "extremely high-pitched (c 8-10 kHz), prolonged series of extremely fast tinkling notes, descending and ascending in an undulating pattern over the length of the song". Its call is "a very high-pitched (c7.3-9.
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When to see the Olive-striped Flycatcher
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Olive-striped Flycatcher
The map shades 4 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 Peru.
About the Olive-striped Flycatcher
The olive-streaked flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
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Easily confused with
McConnell's FlycatcherMionectes macconnelliMcConnell'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).
Side by side: Ochre-bellied Flycatcher vs Olive-striped Flycatcher · Olive-striped Flycatcher vs Streak-necked Flycatcher · Grey-hooded Flycatcher vs Olive-striped Flycatcher
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