Olive Tufted Flycatcher

Mitrephanes olivaceus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 10 g

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The olive tufted flycatcher is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs about 8.5 g (0.30 oz). The sexes have the same plumage and both have an erect pointed crest. Adults have an olive crown, a pale spot above the lores, and a thin buff-white eye-ring on an otherwise olive face. Their upperparts are olive. Their wings are dusky with grayish olive ends on the coverts that show as two wing bars. They have faint pale edges on their secondaries and tertials. Their tail is dusky. Voice: The olive tufted flycatcher's song is "a series of high musical chips followed by a loud, high, descending whistle: tchi-tchi'SEEEW!" and its call is "a rapid series of high, musical chips" tchi-tchi=-tchi-tchi-tchi". It occasionally gives the song's SEEEW! note by itself.

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When to see the Olive Tufted Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Olive Tufted Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Olive Tufted Flycatcher

The olive tufted flycatcher or olive flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.

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