Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
Genus
Xolmis
 
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Version 1.0

This is a historic version of this account.  Current version

SPECIES

Fire-eyed Diucon Xolmis pyrope

Mark Portman, Alex Brush, and Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published September 27, 2013

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Vocalizations

Fire-eyed Diucon is generally quiet (Ridgely and Tudor 1994, Jaramillo 2003). Calls of the diucon include a "soft, subdued pit or whit" (Ridgely and Tudor 1994) or a soft pt (Smith and Vuilleumier 1971, Jaramillo 2003), and "a very brief and relatively high pitched tseet" (Smith and Vuilleumier 1971) or "tseeet, sometimes given in series" (Jaramillo 2003). This may be the call that is described by Johnson (1967) as a "monosyllabic plaintive whistle ... so weak and subdued that it is difficult to believe that it comes from a bird of this size".

The song of Fire-eyed Diucon is "short call notes terminating in a flourish", transcribed as "pt wheet whut T-T-wheeeooo" (Jaramillo 2003).

For a representative audio recording with sonogram, see audio

Additional audio recordings of vocalizations of Fire-eyed Diucon can be heard at Macaulay Library, at xeno-canto, and at Internet Bird Collection.

Nonvocal Sounds

None reported.

Recommended Citation

Portman, M., A. Brush, and T. S. Schulenberg (2013). Fire-eyed Diucon (Xolmis pyrope), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.fiediu1.01