Greyish Miner

The greyish miner is a smallish member of its genus. It is 12 to 15 cm (4.7 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 16 to 17 g (0.56 to 0.60 oz). The sexes are alike. Adults have a pale gray-brown face with a faint creamy supercilium. Their upperparts are pale gray-brown. Their central tail feathers are also gray-brown. The rest are black with white outer webs on the outermost pair. Their wing coverts are gray-brown with wide sandy brown edges and their flight feathers are dusky brown. Their chin and throat are white and the rest of their underparts are creamy white with pinkish buff flanks. Voice: The greyish miner's song has been rendered as "an unmusical te-cherrrr..., sometimes followed by a longer series of notes ke ke ke ke ...". It has a variety of calls rendered as "plyt-plyt", "jyp", "a rasping tch-trr", and "a short, somewhat squeaky kew".