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The cinereous tyrant is 13 to 13.5 cm (5.1 to 5.3 in) long. Adult males are shades of gray. ("Cinereous" means ash-colored.) They have mostly dark gray upperparts. Their head is darker than their body, giving the appearance of a hood, though the face is blackish gray. Their wings are dusky gray or blackish gray with grayish edges on the inner remiges and thin pale gray tips on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky with pale outer webs on the outer feathers. Voice: The cinereous tyrant is mostly silent. Males give a "ts-ip" call before the display flight and during the drop makes a "skidi-ik: noise that might actually be from its wings. The latter is also written as "tikitip".
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When to see the Cinereous Tyrant
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Cinereous Tyrant
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Brazil.
About the Cinereous Tyrant
The cinereous tyrant, or cinereous black-tyrant, is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, and as a vagrant to Brazil.
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Easily confused with
Rufous-tailed TyrantKnipolegus poecilurusThe rufous-tailed tyrant is 14.5 to 15 cm (5.7 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 13 to 15 g (0.46 to 0.53 oz).
Hudson's Black TyrantKnipolegus hudsoniHudson's black tyrant is about 15 to 15.5 cm (5.9 to 6.1 in) long.
Plumbeous TyrantKnipolegus cabanisiThe plumbeous tyrant is 14.5 to 16.5 cm (5.7 to 6.5 in) long.
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