Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher

The Amazonian scrub flycatcher is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 14.5 to 17 g (0.51 to 0.60 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark grayish brown crown that sometimes erects as a shaggy crest. Their face is mostly whitish to pale gray with a faint pale supercilium, a dark line through the eye, and a darker gray to the back of the ear coverts. Their back and rump are dark grayish brown. Their wings are dusky gray with paler grayish to whitish edges on the flight feathers and tips of the wing coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky. Voice: The Amazonian scrub flycatcher is not highly vocal, and there are limited number of recordings of it. Those in xeno-canto are mostly from Brazil and Ecuador with a few from Peru. Its dawn song is "two simple phrases, one is a slightly plaintive underslurred 'tseeeet' the other is a double-noted 'chee-weeh!' ".