Alternative name: Chestnut-belted Chat-Tyrant
- Ochthoeca thoracica
Identification
12–13 cm (4¾-5 in)
- Upperside and head including throat slaty to blackish
- White supercilium reaches just beyond the eye
- Long Rictal bristles
- Upper breast maroon or deep chestnut
- Underside from central breast is grey
Variation
The breast band are narrower on northern birds than those from southern Peru and Bolivia.
Similar Species
Rufous-breasted Chat-Tyrant is paler and has a different shape to rufous breast band.
Distribution
South America: found in Peru (south and west of the Marañón Valley) as well as in Bolivia. The southern birds also tend to have the underside less dark than northern birds.
Taxonomy
Chestnut-bellied Chat-Tyrant, Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant, and Blackish Chat-Tyrant formerly were one species named Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant.
Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognized[1].
- O. t. angustifasciata Andes of northern Peru in Amazonas (south and east of the Marañón Valley) and San Martín, populations south of Huánuco probably also this subspecies; also locally in east central and southeastern Cajamarca, west of the Marañón Valley
- O. t. thoracica in southern Peru and Bolivia
Habitat
Along forested streams in mid elevation, to heights around 3300 m asl.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of insects which they wait for on a favoured perch. They rarely join mixed species flocks.
Vocalisation
A drawn out whistle of about a seconds duration, often first rising and than falling in pitch.
Gallery
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Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant (O.t.thoracica)
Photo by Peter R. Bono
Along Manu Road, below Pillahuata, near tunnels (approx. 2300m), Peru, July 2008
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.1)_red. Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.1. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Schulenberg, T. S. & Stotz, D. F. & Lane, D. F. & O'Neill, J. P. & Parker III, T. A. & Egg, A. B. (2010). Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691130231
- Herzog, SK, RS Terrill, AE Jahn, JV Remsen Jr.,O Maillars Z, VH Garcia-Soliz, R MacLeod, A Maccormick, & JQ Vidoz, 2019. Birds of Bolivia, Revised first ed. Associacion Armonia and Future Generations University Press. ISBN 975-99974-922-7-2
- Farnsworth, A., J. del Hoyo, N. Collar, G. Langham, and G. M. Kirwan (2022). Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant (Ochthoeca thoracica), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (N. D. Sly and S. M. Billerman, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.slbcht3.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 July 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Maroon-belted_Chat-Tyrant
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