Belted Flycatcher

The belted flycatcher is 11.5 to 13 cm (4.5 to 5.1 in) long; one male weighed 13.0 g (0.46 oz) and a female 11.5 g (0.41 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adult males have a mostly brownish olive head with a pointed blackish brown or olive gray crest and a wide white or pale lemon teardrop-shaped eye-ring. Their upperparts are mostly brownish olive with pale cinnamon brown uppertail coverts. Their wings are dusky brown with wide pale cinnamon ends on the coverts that show as two wing bars. They have pale cinnamon edges on their tertials and the same color as a panel on their secondaries. Voice: The belted flycatcher's song is "a rolling nasal pip-pip-pi'pi'pi'pi'pweee!". Its calls are an "emphatic nasal peeurrr! a 2-part pee'wierr!". Males jerk their tail while calling. Mates have a peer-peer contact call when the male approaches the nest.