Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma) | Photos, Calls and ID

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ForestDomed nestSmall · 21 g

Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma), photo 1 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma), photo 2 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma), photo 3 — Photo: desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0

Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma), photo 4 — Photo: desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0

Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma), photo 9 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma), photo 10 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

What the Sapayoa sounds like

Sonogram of the Sapayoa: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Esmeraldas: right bank Rio Santiago, above Estero Pote 7 km E Playa de Oro, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The sapayoa is 13.5 to 15 cm (5.3 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 21 g (0.74 oz). Its head and upperparts are olive with a dusky tinge to the wings and tail. It throat and belly are a yellower olive. Its bill is wide and black with rictal bristles around it. Its iris is dull reddish brown and its legs are gray. Males have a yellow stripe on the crown. Voice: The sapayoa's vocalizations are not well known. One is "a soft trill" and another is "a slightly louder 'chipp, ch-ch-ch' ".

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When to see the Sapayoa

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Sapayoa

Regular range

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

Panama Colombia Ecuador

About the Sapayoa

The sapayoa or broad-billed sapayoa is a suboscine passerine bird found Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.

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