About the Rufous-browed Chat-Tyrant
The rufous-browed chat-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Venezuela.
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The rufous-browed chat-tyrant is 14.5 to 16 cm (5.7 to 6.3 in) long and weighs about 14 to 15 g (0.49 to 0.53 oz). The sexes appear to have the same plumage. Adults have a brown crown and bright rufous supercilium that begins at the lores and widens past the eye. The rest of their face is dark brown. Their upperparts are brown. Their wings are dusky with rufous tips to the coverts that form one or two prominent wing bars. Their tail is dusky with white outer webs of the outermost feathers. Voice: As of June 2025 xeno-canto had no recordings of rufous-browed chat-tyrant vocalizations; the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had nine. Its dawn song is "a fast, rhythmic, duet plee, plít'ter'tew, plít'ter'tew..., chattery, up to 12 phrases slowing at end". The song has some variations such as "cháp'pa'cháp'pa or cháp'it'dip!".
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in December · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Piura Chat-TyrantOchthoeca piuraeThe Piura chat-tyrant is 12 to 12.5 cm (4.7 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 9 g (0.32 oz).
Blackish Chat-TyrantOchthoeca nigritaThe blackish chat-tyrant is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long.
Maroon-belted Chat-TyrantOchthoeca thoracicaThe maroon-belted chat-tyrant is 13 to 13.5 cm (5.1 to 5.3 in) long and weighs about 11 to 16 g (0.39 to 0.56 oz).
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