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The Peruvian tyrannulet is about 11 to 12 cm (4.3 to 4.7 in) long and weighs 9 to 10 g (0.32 to 0.35 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have pale yellow lores and eye-ring and a dark stripe through the eye on an otherwise buff-washed bright olive face. Their crown is darkish olive to grayish olive and their back and rump are bright olive. Their wings are dark dusky with bright yellow-green edges on the coverts and flight feathers. Their tail is dusky olive. Their throat is pale yellow, their breast and flanks olive-yellow with some olive markings, and their belly bright yellow. Voice: The Peruvian tyrannulet's dawn song is "a rising, musical, chiming series tew-tew-tee" and its call "a 1-4 note upslurred hooooeet? or huhu-hu eeet?".
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When to see the Peruvian Tyrannulet
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 Peruvian Tyrannulet
The map shades 3 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 Venezuela.
About the Peruvian Tyrannulet
The Peruvian tyrannulet is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in southwestern Ecuador and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Bolivian TyrannuletZimmerius bolivianusThe Bolivian tyrannulet is 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) long and weighs 10 to 11.6 g (0.35 to 0.41 oz).
Mishana TyrannuletZimmerius villarejoiThe Mishana tyrannulet weighs about 6 to 7 g (0.21 to 0.25 oz).
Red-billed TyrannuletZimmerius cinereicapillaThe red-billed tyrannulet is 11.5 to 12 cm (4.5 to 4.7 in) long; four males weighed 11.3 to 13.8 g (0.40 to 0.49 oz) and two females 10.7 and 11.2 g (0.38 and 0.40 oz).
Side by side: Golden-faced Tyrannulet vs Peruvian Tyrannulet · Guatemalan Tyrannulet vs Peruvian Tyrannulet · Peruvian Tyrannulet vs Slender-footed Tyrannulet
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