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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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When to see the Grey-hooded Flycatcher
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 Grey-hooded Flycatcher
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
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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Easily confused with
Olive-striped FlycatcherMionectes olivaceusThe olive-streaked flycatcher is 13 cm (5.1 in) long.
McConnell's FlycatcherMionectes macconnelliMcConnell's flycatcher is 12.5 to 14 cm (4.9 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 8 to 18 g (0.28 to 0.63 oz).
Sierra de Lema FlycatcherMionectes roraimaeThe Sierra de Lema flycatcher is 12.5 to 13.5 cm (4.9 to 5.3 in) long and weighs about 13 g (0.46 oz).
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