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The crowned slaty flycatcher is 16.5 to 18 cm (6.5 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 27 to 46 g (0.95 to 1.6 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a flattened black crown with a mostly hidden golden yellow patch in the center, a gray supercilium, and dusky ear coverts. Their upperparts are brownish gray. Their wings and tail are dusky with lighter feather edges. Their underparts are light gray with a yellowish tinge on the belly. Subspecies E. a. Voice: The crowned slaty flycatcher is fairly quiet during the breeding season and usually silent in its winter range. Its song is a "thin buzzy and rising be-bee-beee-beeez, low whistling pree-ee-ee-er, and a series of squeaky notes, or a two part tsi-tsitsewt-tsi-tsébidit phrase". Its calls include a "rather weak pseek or high thin pseeet" and "thin, high tzeer and peeping notes".
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When to see the Crowned Slaty Flycatcher
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Where to see the Crowned Slaty Flycatcher
The map shades 11 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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Panama, French Guiana.
About the Crowned Slaty Flycatcher
The crowned slaty flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in every mainland South American country except Suriname though only as a vagrant to Chile, French Guiana, and Venezuela. There are also single records of it in Panama and the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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