Eye-ringed flatbill
Eye-ringed flatbill | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tyrannidae |
Genus: | Rhynchocyclus |
Species: | R. brevirostris
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Binomial name | |
Rhynchocyclus brevirostris (Cabanis, 1847)
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The eye-ringed flatbill (Rhynchocyclus brevirostris) is a species of
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]
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9.
- ISBN 978-0-8014-7674-7.
Further reading
- Skutch, Alexander F. (1960). "Eye-ringed flat-bill" (PDF). Life Histories of Central American Birds II. Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 34. Berkeley, California: Cooper Ornithological Society. pp. 508–515.
External links
- Media related to Rhynchocyclus brevirostris at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Rhynchocyclus brevirostris at Wikispecies
- BirdLife species factsheet for Rhynchocyclus brevirostris
- "Rhynchocyclus brevirostris". Avibase.
- "Eye-ringed flatbill media". Internet Bird Collection.
- Eye-ringed flatbill photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Eye-ringed flatbill species account at Neotropical Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Interactive range map of Rhynchocyclus brevirostris at IUCN Red List maps