Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca fumicolor

Colombian name: Pitajo Ahumado

Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Chingaza NP, Cundinamarca, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

The Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant is distributed in the Andes from western Venezuela to western Bolivia. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in shrubby areas and woodland borders mainly at or just above the treeline at between 2,600 and 4,400 metres.

Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Chingaza NP, Cundinamarca, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image It is usually seen perched quite openly singly or in pairs. It sallies from the perch to catch its insect prey either in the air or on the ground.
Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image There are 5 sub-species. Photos 1 and 2 from the eastern Andes of Colombia show the nominate sub-species with a paler supercilium and paler underparts around the crissum. Photo 3 from the central Andes (Nevado del Ruiz) shows either the sub-species O. f. ferruginea or O. f. brunneifrons with more uniformly cinnamon-rufous underparts and a more buffy supercilium. Photos 4 and 5 from Peru are of O. f. brunneifrons
Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Abra Calla Calla, Amazonas, Peru, November 2018 - click for larger image
Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Abra Calla Calla, Amazonas, Peru, November 2018 - click for larger image
Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Antisana Reserve, Napo, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image
Brown-backed Chat-Tyrant, Papallacta Pass, Napo, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image
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