Family Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Least Concern
Blackish Chat-tyrant (Ochthoeca nigrita)
Taxonomy
French: Pitajo noir German: Schwarzbauch-Schmätzertyrann Spanish: Pitajo negro
Taxonomy:
Ochthoëca nigrita
P. L. Sclater and Salvin
, 1871,páramos of Mérida, Venezuela
.Distribution:
Andes of Venezuela (Mérida and NW Barinas S to N Táchira).
Descriptive notes
c. 12 cm. Small and short-tailed, with short, thin bill, long rictal bristles. Adult is entirely slate-black, with narrow white supraloral streak, extending from base of bill... read more
Voice
Infrequently heard. Gives a rather loud buzzy whistle, which sounds abrupt and slightly descending... read more
Habitat
Inhabits dense shrubbery along steep-gradient mountain streams, or nearby borders of humid and wet... read more
Food and feeding
Insects. Behaviour much as described for O. cinnamomeiventris, with single birds and well-separated pairs perching on low... read more
Breeding
Apparently nothing known.
Movements
Resident.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Restricted-range species: endemic to Cordillera de Mérida EBA, in W Venezuela, where known from Sierra Nevada National Park.... read more
Usually treated as conspecific with O. cinnamomeiventris and O. thoracica, but differs from both in its slaty vs deep chestnut (bay) breast to belly (score vs cinnamomeiventris 4, vs thoracica 3); vague small whitish vs bold large white underwing-coverts (2); paler grey upperparts (1); shorter tail than thoracica (effect size for males –6.6, score 3); also possibly different call (“loud buzzy whistle, abrupt and slightly descending” vs “loud, burry whistle, ‘sweeeeea’, rising then slightly falling”#R) (1–2). Monotypic.