Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant (Ochthoeca rufipectoralis) | Photos, Calls and ID

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What the Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant sounds like

Sonogram of the Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Azuay: Cañayacu 7 km NNE Chaucha, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Flight song, dawn flight song · Azuay: 5.5 km SW Molleturo, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Napo: 3 km below Oyacachi, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The rufous-breasted chat-tyrant is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long and weighs about 13 g (0.46 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies O. r. rufipectoralis have a sooty brown head with white above the bill that extends into a long wide white supercilium. Their upperparts are brown to sooty brown. Their wings are blackish with faint rufous or cinnamon-buff edges on the secondaries and tertials. Their tail is blackish with thin white edges on the outermost feathers. Voice: The rufous-breasted chat-tyrant's day song differs somewhat among the subspecies. The nominate subspecies' is "a high buzzy phrased followed by a buzzy whistle, in series: tsi'jiot tzee...tsi'jit tzee.... In Colombia it is "an abrupt ch-brrr, ch-brrr, ch-brrr".

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When to see the Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant

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 Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 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.

Peru Colombia Ecuador Bolivia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Venezuela.

About the Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant

The rufous-breasted chat-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

Slaty-backed Chat-TyrantOchthoeca cinnamomeiventrisThe slaty-backed chat-tyrant is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs 11 to 13 g (0.39 to 0.46 oz).

Brown-backed Chat-TyrantOchthoeca fumicolorThe brown-backed chat-tyrant is 14.5 to 16 cm (5.7 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 16 to 19 g (0.56 to 0.67 oz).

White-browed Chat-TyrantOchthoeca leucophrysThe white-browed chat-tyrant is 14.5 to 15.5 cm (5.7 to 6.1 in) long.

Side by side: Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant vs Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant · Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant vs Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant · Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant vs White-browed Chat-Tyrant

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