About the Southern Scrub Flycatcher
The southern scrub flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Other sources also place it in Guyana, Suriname, as a non-breeding visitor to Colombia, and as a vagrant in Ecuador.
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The southern scrub flycatcher is 13 to 15 cm (5.1 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 9.5 to 13 g (0.34 to 0.46 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a grayish brown crown that sometimes erects as a shaggy crest. Their face is mostly whitish to pale gray with an almost invisible pale supercilium, a dark line through the eye, and a darker gray to the back of the ear coverts. Their back and rump are grayish brown. Their wings are dusky gray with paler grayish edges on the flight feathers and tips of the wing coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Voice: In the lowlands the southern scrub flycatcher's dawn song is "a loud, repeated 2-syllable 'pseee-ú' " and its call "a soft 'cheer' ". In Argentina it sings "some short notes followed by a descending, slightly hoarse whistle" di-di-di-DZEEE".
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Where it lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Amazonian Scrub FlycatcherSublegatus obscuriorThe Amazonian scrub flycatcher is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 14.5 to 17 g (0.51 to 0.60 oz).
Northern Scrub FlycatcherSublegatus arenarumThe northern scrub flycatcher is 13 to 15 cm (5.1 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 10.5 to 15 g (0.37 to 0.53 oz).
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