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The yellow-bellied tyrannulet is 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long and weighs about 7 to 8 g (0.25 to 0.28 oz). It is a small flycatcher with a pointed bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a slate-grey crown with a white forehead, lores, and supercilium on an otherwise olive-brown face. Their upperparts are bright olive. Their wings and tail are dusky olive. Their underparts are bright yellow with faint olive streaks on the breast and flanks. Both sexes have a brown iris, a black bill with an arched maxilla, and dark gray legs and feet. Voice: The yellow-bellied tyrannulet's call is "a high-pitched whistle (weeauuuu or peauuuu)" that is sometimes doubled. It also makes "an agitated 'rubber duck' quality series of whistles pip'a'pip'a-pip-pip-peauuu-peauuu-pip'a-pip'a'pip'a".
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When to see the Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
The map shades 7 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 Venezuela.
About the Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
The yellow-bellied tyrannulet is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
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Easily confused with
Brown-capped TyrannuletOrnithion brunneicapillusThe brown-capped tyrannulet is about 8 cm (3.1 in) long and weighs about 7 to 8 g (0.25 to 0.28 oz).
White-lored TyrannuletOrnithion inermeThe white-lored tyrannulet is 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long and weighs about 6 to 8 g (0.21 to 0.28 oz).
Side by side: Brown-capped Tyrannulet vs Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet
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