Plumbeous Tyrant

The plumbeous tyrant is 14.5 to 16.5 cm (5.7 to 6.5 in) long. Adult males are almost entirely dark slate gray above and somewhat paler below with lower belly the palest. Their wings and tail are dusky with white edges on the inner webs of the remiges. Adult females have mostly dull brown upperparts with bright rufous uppertail coverts. Their wings are dull brown with buffy white edges on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is dull brown with bright rufous edges to the feathers. Their underparts are buffy white with wide grayish olive streaks that sometimes cover the breast. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had five recordings of plumbeous tyrant vocalizations; the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had one of them and three others. The species is mostly silent. At the peak of the display flight males utter "a rich tchick!". The species' call is "a rapid, low chirri'jurriew" that is accompanied by bill snapping.