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The ruddy tody-flycatcher is 9.5 to 10.2 cm (3.7 to 4.0 in) long and weighs 6.5 to 8.3 g (0.23 to 0.29 oz). Adult males have a cinnamon-rufous forehead and a sooty-black crown. Their face is mostly cinnamon-rufous. Their back, rump, and uppertail coverts are dark olive. Their wings are dark olive with greenish yellow edges on the inner flight feathers and cinnamon-rufous tips on the coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is dark olive. Their throat and breast are a slightly paler cinnamon-rufous than the face. Their belly is grayish with a brownish tinge on the flanks. Voice: The ruddy tody-flycatcher's call is "a weak dull tsuk, sick, tr'r'r'r'r'r'r'r'r" that is sometimes followed by two or three "short bursts of trills". Its elements are sometimes given separately, When it is agitated it gives variations like "chip-t'b'r'r'r'r, squeeeeo, t'b'r'r'r with a squeak in the middle".
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When to see the Ruddy Tody-Flycatcher
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Ruddy Tody-Flycatcher
The map shades 2 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 Brazil.
About the Ruddy Tody-Flycatcher
The ruddy tody-flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is native to the oriental tepuis of Venezuela.
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Easily confused with
Black-backed Tody-FlycatcherPoecilotriccus pulchellusThe black-backed tody-flycatcher is about 9.5 cm (3.7 in) long; one male weighed 8.7 g (0.31 oz) and one female 7.2 g (0.25 oz).
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