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The spectacled tyrant is 13 to 16 cm (5.1 to 6.3 in) long and weighs about 20 to 25 g (0.71 to 0.88 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies are mostly black. Their primaries are mostly white with black bases and tips. They have bare, fleshy, green-tinged yellow skin around the eye that gives the species its English name. Adult females have a dark brown crown, a buffy or buff-white supercilium, pale lores, and a smaller eye-ring than males on otherwise mostly pale dusky face. Their back is dark brown with black streaks.
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When to see the Spectacled Tyrant
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Spectacled Tyrant
The map shades 6 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 Peru.
About the Spectacled Tyrant
The spectacled tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and as a vagrant to Peru.
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Easily confused with
Greenish ElaeniaMyiopagis viridicataThe greenish elaenia is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 11 to 13 g (0.39 to 0.46 oz).
Slaty-capped FlycatcherLeptopogon superciliarisThe slaty-capped flycatcher is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 9.5 to 14.8 g (0.34 to 0.52 oz).
Golden-bellied FlycatcherMyiodynastes hemichrysusThe golden-bellied flycatcher is 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) long and weighs about 39 to 42.5 g (1.4 to 1.5 oz).
Side by side: Greenish Elaenia vs Spectacled Tyrant · Slaty-capped Flycatcher vs Spectacled Tyrant · Golden-bellied Flycatcher vs Spectacled Tyrant
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