Red-billed Tyrannulet

Zimmerius cinereicapilla

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 12 g

What the Red-billed Tyrannulet sounds like

Sonogram of the Red-billed Tyrannulet: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Napo: V.Sumaco: "Wild Sumaco Lodge" (500 m N), Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

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The 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). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a pale gray or dusky olive crown. Their face, back, and rump are olive green. Their wing's lesser coverts are dusky with olive green tips and the median and greater coverts are dusky with pale greenish white edges. Their flight feathers are blackish with pale greenish white or white edges. Their tail is dusky with thin pale olive edges on the feathers. Voice: The red-billed tyrannulet's song has been described as "an accelerating and slightly descending series of clear notes, teeuw tew-tew-te-te-te-te-te-te-te or...a fast series of clear notes, the last two emphasized, tirtetetetete-whét-whét". Other authors describe it as "a rising chi-wheet, interspersed with a rich, chuckling pi'CHEE'CHEE'CHEE'CHEE".

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When to see the Red-billed 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 Red-billed Tyrannulet

Regular range

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

About the Red-billed Tyrannulet

The red-billed tyrannulet is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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