White-browed Chat-Tyrant

Ochthoeca leucophrys

Least ConcernRareInvertebratesShrublandCup nestTiny · 13 g

About the White-browed Chat-Tyrant

The white-browed chat-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru.

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The white-browed chat-tyrant is 14.5 to 15.5 cm (5.7 to 6.1 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies O. l. leucophrys have a dark gray to grayish brown crown, a wide white supercilium that begins at the lores and extends well past the eye, and a blackish "mask". Their upperparts are a slightly lighter gray to grayish brown than the crown with a slight cinnamon tinge on the lower back and rump. Their wings are a duskier gray with two faint cinnamon wing bars. Their tail is dusky with white outer webs on the outermost feathers. Voice: What is thought to be the white-browed chat-tyrant's song is "a squeaky chatter, usually in duet: wu-chew'widdu". Its calls are "a squeaky, rising-falling weeo and a higher weedee?". In Argentina it makes "a sharp keeew".

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Where it lives

Regular range

When to see it

Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range

Easily confused with

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