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The slaty elaenia is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 18 to 20 g (0.63 to 0.71 oz). It is a small elaenia with a slight crest. Adult males have a slate-gray head with slightly paler cheeks, a thin white eyering, and a partially concealed white patch in the middle of the crown. Their upperparts are slate-gray. Their wings are mostly dusky gray; they are slightly paler on the edges of the flight feathers and the tips of the coverts. The latter show as two very faint bars on the closed wing. Their tail is dusky. Voice: The slaty elaenia is vocal only in its breeding range. Its primary call is "a dry, gravelly 'eh-eh-ehhhhhh' " that is unlike that of other elaenias; it has been likened to a frog's or locust's sounds.
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When to see the Slaty Elaenia
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 4 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Slaty Elaenia
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Slaty Elaenia
The slaty elaenia is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela, and as a vagrant in Ecuador and on Trinidad.
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Easily confused with
Rufous-crowned ElaeniaElaenia ruficepsThe rufous-crowned elaenia is about 14.5 to 15 cm (5.7 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 19 g (0.67 oz).
Coopmans's ElaeniaElaenia brachypteraCoopmans's elaenia is about 13.5 cm (5.3 in) long.
Brownish ElaeniaElaenia pelzelniThe brownish elaenia is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long.
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