Rufous-tailed flatbill
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Ramphotrigon ruficauda

The rufous-tailed flatbill (Ramphotrigon ruficauda ) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Rufous-tailed flatbill is a fairly common flycatcher of lowland forest in northern South America. It is somewhat solitary in areas of open understory in varzea and terra firme lowland humid forest, primarily in the Orinoco and Amazon drainages. The species is a distinctive, small flycatcher, mostly olive on the body with an obviously rufous tail and blackish wings with rufous edging. The rufous-tailed flatbill is most frequently located by its call, a two-part whistle with the first part long and rising and the second part lower and abbreviated.

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Distribution

Geography

It occurs in humid lowland evergreen forest. It usually forages in the midstory of terra firme forest. It prefers sites with an open understory.

Rufous-tailed flatbill habitat map
Rufous-tailed flatbill habitat map
Rufous-tailed flatbill
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References

1. Rufous-tailed flatbill Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous-tailed_flatbill
2. Rufous-tailed flatbill on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22700476/130207374
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/675881

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