Eye-ringed flatbill

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Eye-ringed flatbill
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Rhynchocyclus
Species:
R. brevirostris
Binomial name
Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
(Cabanis, 1847)
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The eye-ringed flatbill (Rhynchocyclus brevirostris) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama, with a slight incursion into Colombia at the south end of its range. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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The Pacific flatbill (R. pacificus) is sometimes still considered a subspecies of R. brevirostris.

This species measures 15 cm (5.9 in). [2] It has olive-green upperparts and green streaked breast grading to a yellowish belly and white vent. Then tail is also green. Its face is grey with a prominent white eye ring. The short, flat bill is bicolored, with the upper mandible dark grey and the lower mandible pinkish orange.

The call is a sharp shreep. [3]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Rhynchocyclus brevirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22699594A93738710. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22699594A93738710.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Garrigues, Richard; Dean, Robert (2007). The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 200. ISBN   978-0-8014-7373-9.
  3. Angehr, George R.; Dean, Robert (2010). The Birds of Panama. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 234. ISBN   978-0-8014-7674-7.

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