| Eye-ringed flatbill | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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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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| range | |
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.
The Pacific flatbill (R. pacificus) is sometimes still considered a subspecies of R. brevirostris.
This species measures 15 cm (5.9 in). 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.
References
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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
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