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Tawny-chested Flycatcher

Aphanotriccus capitalis

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableInvertebratesForestCavity nestTiny · 12 g
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 1
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 2
Photo: Dan Riley · CC BY 4.0
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 3
Photo: Dan Riley · CC BY 4.0
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 4
Photo: Kathy & sam from Beaverton OR, USA · CC BY 2.0
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 5
Photo: Bale & Danielsson; Bannwarth, Th.; Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company; Godman, Frederick Du Cane; Hanhart; Horman-Fisher, Maud; Knight, H.; Mintern Bros.; Purkiss, W.; Salvin, Osbert; Saunders, G. S.; Schlereth, M. v.; Sharp, M. A.; Taylor & Francis; Wilson, Edwin · Public domain
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 6
Photo: Dan Riley · CC BY 4.0
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 7
Photo: (c) Dan Riley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 8
Photo: (c) Dan Riley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 9
Photo: (c) Attila Oláh, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Tawny-chested Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus capitalis), photo 10
Photo: (c) Dan Riley, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Tawny-chested Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Tawny-chested Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Beth Cottam · Call, song · Rio Tuis ZP- near Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The tawny-chested flycatcher is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs about 11 g (0.39 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage and resemble a more brightly colored version of an Empidonax flycatcher. Adult males have a dark gray crown, dark lores with a white stripe above them, and a broken white eye-ring. Females have an olive tinge on their crown. Both sexes have an olive-green nape, back, and rump with an ochraceous tinge on all but the rump. Voice: The tawny-chested flycatcher's song is "a rapid chee chee spt’t cheew or chit it-it chee’yew sometimes more extensive choot choot choot ch-ch-ch-chttttree’ih".

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When to see the Tawny-chested Flycatcher

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 Tawny-chested Flycatcher

Regular range

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

Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras

About the Tawny-chested Flycatcher

The tawny-chested flycatcher is a small Vulnerable species of passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Costa Rica and previously was also found in Nicaragua.

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

Easily confused with

Black-billed Flycatcher (Aphanotriccus audax) Black-billed FlycatcherAphanotriccus audaxThe black-billed flycatcher is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long.

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