Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus) | Photos and ID

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Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 1 — Photo: (c) RAP, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 2 — Photo: (c) Pablo H Capovilla, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) RAP, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 4 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Luciano Massa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Luciano Massa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) María Zeta, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Nahuel Di Marco, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Nicolas Olejnik, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Black-crowned Monjita (Neoxolmis coronatus), photo 10 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

ID tip

The black-crowned monjita is 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) long and weighs 40 to 53 g (1.4 to 1.9 oz). The sexes have the same plumage; females are slightly smaller than males. Adults have a black crown with a wide white stripe around its base, blackish ear coverts, and a white lower face. Their upperparts are gray or brownish gray. Their wings are blackish with white bases to the flight feathers that show in flight. Their wing coverts have white tips and edges and the tertials have white edges. Their tail is blackish above and white below. Their throat and underparts are entirely white. Voice: The black-crowned monjita's song is "a soft, melodic whut-whut, wheeeyr? whut".

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When to see the Black-crowned Monjita

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-crowned Monjita

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Argentina Uruguay Brazil Paraguay Bolivia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Chile, Falkland Islands.

About the Black-crowned Monjita

The black-crowned monjita is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and as a vagrant to Chile and the Falkland Islands.

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Easily confused with

Chocolate-vented TyrantNeoxolmis rufiventrisThe chocolate-vented tyrant is 20 to 23 cm (7.9 to 9.1 in) long and weighs about 77 g (2.7 oz).

Rusty-backed MonjitaNeoxolmis rubetraThe rusty-backed monjita is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long.

Salinas MonjitaNeoxolmis salinarumThe salinas monjita is about 16.5 cm (6.5 in) long.

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