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The lesser shrike-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay and as a vagrant to Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay.
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The lesser shrike-tyrant is 16 to 18.5 cm (6.3 to 7.3 in) long. Adult males have a gray-brown crown, mottled blackish and white lores, and a whitish or buffy supercilium and eye-ring. Their upperparts are gray-brown. Their wings are mostly dusky with whitish tips on the coverts and whitish edges on the inner flight feathers. Their tail is mostly dusky with pale grayish to white outer webs on the outermost pair pair of feathers. Their throat is white with thin black streaks, their breast very pale grayish brown, their flanks pale grayish brown with a buff tinge, and their belly creamy whitish. Voice: As of May 2025 xeno-canto had a single recording of a lesser shrike-tyrant call; the Cornell Lab's Macaulay Library had it and 11 others. The species is usually silent but makes "an occasional phooeeay descending" call.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in May · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Grey-bellied Shrike-TyrantAgriornis micropterusThe grey-bellied shrike-tyrant is 23 to 24.5 cm (9.1 to 9.6 in) long.
Great Shrike-TyrantAgriornis lividusThe great shrike-tyrant is the largest species of tyrant flycatcher, weighing an average of about 99 g (3.5 oz).
Black-billed Shrike-TyrantAgriornis montanusThe black-billed shrike-tyrant is 22 to 24 cm (8.7 to 9.4 in) long.
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