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The Yungas tyrannulet is 10 to 11.5 cm (3.9 to 4.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dull olive-gray crown and nape with a slightly mottled appearance. Their lores, supercilium, partial eyering, and lower face are whitish with a dark stripe through their eye. Their upperparts are yellow-olive that becomes paler and more yellowish on their rump and uppertail coverts. Their flight feathers are fuscous to dusky brown with pale yellowish to creamy edges. Voice: The Yungas tyrannulet's song is "a slightly accelerating series of 3–5 whistled notes successively dropping in pitch, first note longest". Pairs also sing an antiphonal duet with one member singing a short burry note and the other a more complex series of notes.
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When to see the Yungas Tyrannulet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yungas Tyrannulet
The map shades 1 country 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 Yungas Tyrannulet
The Yungas tyrannulet is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.
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Easily confused with
Plumbeous-crowned TyrannuletPhyllomyias plumbeicepsThe plumbeous-crowned tyrannulet is about 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long.
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