Grey-hooded Flycatcher

Mionectes rufiventris

Least ConcernRareInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 13 g

About the Grey-hooded Flycatcher

The grey-hooded flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

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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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Where it lives

Regular range

When to see it

Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range

Easily confused with

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