Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Catalan | tirà menut de capell |
| Dutch | Zwartkapdwergtiran |
| English | Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant |
| English (United States) | Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant |
| French | Microtyran à calotte noire |
| French (France) | Microtyran à calotte noire |
| German | Schwarzkappen-Zwergtyrann |
| Japanese | コビトタイランチョウ |
| Norwegian | svartkroneknøttyrann |
| Polish | tyraneczek czarnołbisty |
| Russian | Черношапочная аруна |
| Slovak | moskytárik čiernohlavý |
| Spanish | Mosqueta Capirotada |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | Mosquerito Colicorto |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | Tirano Enano Gorrinegro |
| Spanish (Panama) | Tirano-Enano Gorrinegro |
| Spanish (Spain) | Mosqueta capirotada |
| Swedish | svartkronad pygmétyrann |
| Turkish | Kara Tepeli Küçük Tiran |
| Ukrainian | Аруна чорноголова |
Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant Myiornis atricapillus
Version: 1.0 — Published September 18, 2015
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Vocalizations
All vocalizations of Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant are thin and high pitched, and are easy to pass off as calls of insects or frogs (e.g. Slud 1964, Stiles and Skutch 1989); they also are quite similar to those of the closely related Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant (Myiornis ecaudatus). What may be a song of Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant is a high-pitched, trilled crreek or tsrreep, with a rising inflection, which often is uttered just once but may be given in a series of shorter notes (Ridgely and Greenfield 2001b).
Other vocalizations include a sharp, reedy tseep or keep which rises in inflection (Stiles and Skutch 1989,). Slud (1964) described the Black-capped Pygmy Tyrant as having a "tsrit that sounds like a warbler, which when doubled or repeated a few times, becomes cricket-like".
Additional audio recordings of vocalizations of Black-capped Pygmy-Tyrant can be heard at Macaulay Library, at xeno-canto, and at Internet Bird Collection.
Nonvocal Sounds
None reported.
