Boat-billed Flycatcher

The boat-billed flycatcher is 21.5 to 24 cm (8.5 to 9.4 in) long and weighs 53 to 70 g (1.9 to 2.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. p. pitangua have a blackish brown or sooty crown with a mostly hidden yellow to orange-rufous patch in the center. They have a wide white supercilium that begins at the forehead and wraps almost all the way around the nape, a wide black band from the lores to the ear coverts, and white cheeks. They have olive to dull brownish olive upperparts. Voice: The boat-billed flycatcher's dawn song has been described as a "loud but simple and clear, slightly reedy and rolled whée-dic, pprrri-iu, chirr-rr or cheer chirree, monotonously repeated". It also sings a "shorter prriu or cheer punctuated by slurred bo-oy or chrr-ee". The nominate subspecies makes a "strident nasal kryeeeh-nyeh-nyeh-nyeh" call; subspecies M. p.