Orange-eyed Flatbill

Tolmomyias traylori

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 12 g

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The orange-eyed flatbill is about 13.5 cm (5.3 in) long; one male weighed 11.5 g (0.41 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a cinnamon forecrown with olive-gray tips on the feathers. They have an olive-gray crown, buff lores, a pale eye-ring, and cinnamon-buff ear coverts. Their nape, back, rump, and uppertail coverts are pale olive-green. Their wings are dusky with greenish yellow edges on the greater coverts that form two wing bars and thin olive-green edges on the flight feather edges, some of which also have a cream far outer edge. Voice: The orange-eyed flatbill is best separated from other flatbills by its voice. One description of its song is "a rising series of short, rising-falling, raspy whistled notes: zreep zreeeep ZREEEP, final note often becoming clearer and more squeaky" and its call is "a rising-falling raspy whistle followed by a low chatter: ZREEE'chirr'rr".

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When to see the Orange-eyed Flatbill

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Orange-eyed Flatbill

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Orange-eyed Flatbill

The orange-eyed flatbill or orange-eyed flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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