Lesser Shrike-Tyrant

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.