Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant Anairetes reguloides Scientific name definitions

Shane G. DuBay and Christopher C. Witt
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated November 9, 2009

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Vocalizations

The song of Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant has been characterized as a series of loud descending whistles similar to the song of the Southern Beardless Tyrannulet (Camptostoma obsoletum) (Fjeldså and Krabbe 1990). Schulenberg et al. (2007) describe the call as a squeaky, descending tweek-tweek-twik-tuik-trr; this call lasts 1.5-3 seconds (Jaramillo 2003). Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant also sings an early morning song of rising squeaky churrs: teek’teek’trk-trrrk or tk-tweek! trrrrk (Schulenberg et al. 2007).  Recordings of Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant vocalizations are archived at Macaulay Library and xeno-canto.

Nonvocal Sounds

None reported.

Recommended Citation

DuBay, S. G. and C. C. Witt (2020). Pied-crested Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes reguloides), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.pcttyr1.01
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