Grey-hooded Flycatcher
Mionectes rufiventris
The grey-hooded flycatcher is 13.5 to 14 cm (5.3 to 5.5 in) long and weighs about 14 g (0.49 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a slate gray crown, nape, and face. Their back and rump are dark olive. Their wings and tail are dusky olive. Their chin and throat are pale gray that becomes buffy olive on the lower breast and bright cinnamon-buff on the belly, flanks, and undertail coverts. Both sexes have a dark brown iris, a long dark brownish gray bill with a pale pinkish base to the mandible, and medium brownish gray legs and feet. Voice: The grey-hooded flycatcher's song is a "slightly descending and accelerating, at the end slightly rising and slowing down series of nasal tjew notes".
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Streamer-tailed Tyrant
Gubernetes yetapa
The streamer-tailed tyrant's body is about 35 cm (14 in) long; including the tail the species is 42 cm (17 in) long. The sexes have the almost the same plumage; females are smaller and slightly duller than males and have shorter tails. Adults have a pale gray forecrown and supercilium, a darker gray crown, and a black line through the eye. Their upperparts are gray with dark brown shafts on the feathers. Their wings are mostly blackish with a large cinnamon patch at the base of the primaries that shows conspicuously in flight. The wing's tertials have light brown to sandy brown edges. Voice: The streamer-tailed tyrant's calls include "a harsh wurreep, repeated multiple times when hovering over foraging area fuller descending phrase of 2 or 3 notes, jew-jew-jew". During the courtship display one bird makes a "clearly whistled tewear-TEE-tear 2–4 times" and the other "a warbled tea-whittle, tea-whittle...".
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