Sulphury Flycatcher

Tyrannopsis sulphurea

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestSmall · 54 g

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The sulphury flycatcher is about 19 to 20 cm (7.5 to 7.9 in) long and weighs 48 to 61 g (1.7 to 2.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly dusky head with a mostly hidden orange-yellow patch in the center of the crown, an indistinct whitish supercilium, and a blackish band from the lores to the ear coverts. Their upperparts and tail are dull olive brown. Their wings are dark brownish dusky. Their throat is whitish with blurry dark gray streaks on its sides. Their upper breast is white and the rest of their underparts bright yellow. Voice: The sulphury flycatcher is not highly vocal. One description of its song is a "high-pitched, penetrating ser of blurred trills, zhr'dek ... zhr'r're'k ... zhr'dek'dek ..., like pulses of electric energy". Another is "a shrill, buzzy DZEE'E'E djeeh-chew djeeh-chew! often in duet". One call is "abrupt, high-energy outbursts of strident, almost electrified screeches, zhrEEEEEEEE!, zhr-zhrEEEEEEEEE!".

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When to see the Sulphury Flycatcher

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

Where to see the Sulphury Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 10 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 Costa Rica.

About the Sulphury Flycatcher

The sulphury flycatcher is a passerine bird of the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found on Trinidad and in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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Side by side: Fulvous-faced Scrub Tyrant vs Sulphury Flycatcher

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