Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Frank Dietze, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Frank Dietze · cc-by

Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 2 — Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0

Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 3 — Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0

Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 4 — Photo: Frank Dietze · CC BY 4.0

Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 5 — Photo: Frank Dietze · CC BY 4.0

Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 6 — Photo: Monics Paredes · CC BY 4.0

Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 7 — Photo: Monics Paredes · CC BY 4.0

Tit-like Dacnis (Xenodacnis parina), photo 10 — Photo: Frank Dietze · CC BY 4.0

What the Tit-like Dacnis sounds like

Sonogram of the Tit-like Dacnis: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Azuay: Laguna Illincocha, Cajas plateau, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, song, nuptial song · Azuay: Laguna Illincocha, Cajas plateau, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Tit-like Dacnis

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 Tit-like Dacnis

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador

About the Tit-like Dacnis

The tit-like dacnis is a small neotropical passerine bird found in southern Ecuador and Peru. In Spanish, it is known as Azulito Altoandino. It is found in Andean montane scrub forests from 3000 m to 4600 m elevation.

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

Easily confused with

Streaked DacnisXenodacnis petersiThe streaked dacnis is a small neotropical passerine bird found in Peru.

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