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Spectacled Bristle Tyrant

Pogonotriccus orbitalis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 7 g

What the Spectacled Bristle Tyrant sounds like

Sonogram of the Spectacled Bristle Tyrant: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, trilled call · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The spectacled bristle tyrant is 11 to 11.5 cm (4.3 to 4.5 in) long and weighs about 8 g (0.28 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a gray crown, yellowish white lores, and a prominent yellowish white eye-ring on an otherwise mottled yellowish face. Their ear coverts have a blackish crescent at the rear. Their back and rump are olive. Their wings are dusky with pale yellow edges on the flight feathers. Their wing coverts are dusky with pale yellow tips that show as two wing bars. Their tail is olive. Voice: What is thought to be the spectacled bristle tyrant's song is "a rising series of high notes" pit-ti TU-TI-TEE". Its calls include "thin pit-tew notes" and "a thin, high, dry, descending trill, rising slightly at end: 'ti'tiiiiiiiiir".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Spectacled Bristle 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 Spectacled Bristle Tyrant

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ecuador Peru Colombia Bolivia

About the Spectacled Bristle Tyrant

The spectacled bristle tyrant is a species of passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Venezuelan Bristle TyrantPogonotriccus venezuelanusThe Venezuelan bristle tyrant is about 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long and weighs 8 to 9 g (0.28 to 0.32 oz). Antioquia Bristle TyrantPogonotriccus lanyoniThe Antioquia bristle tyrant is about 11 to 11.5 cm (4.3 to 4.5 in) long. Chapman's Bristle TyrantPogonotriccus chapmaniChapman's bristle tyrant is about 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 7 to 8 g (0.25 to 0.28 oz).

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