19 cm. A conspicuous flycatcher of the campos. Head white with a grayish hue on the neck. Light brown above. Rump and upper half of the tail white: lower half of the tail black. Wings black with white bases to the flight feathers which show in flight as a broad white band. White rims to the inner secondaries and the tertials. Below white.
I have never heard a sound from this species. Sick mentions a dawn song, a monotonous song "jew" repeated at intervals of 1 -5 seconds: infrequently this whistle is also heard at night when it is easily confused with an insect voice. ^30 .
Forages by perch to ground sallies in open country. Hovers a lot. Also seen near farms perching on top of telephone poles, fences and bushes. Conspicuous and not particularly shy.
Not uncommon in campo with bushes and low trees, also in Eucalyptus. More common inland.
In this area more a bird of the uplands | Serra Mantiqueira, Campos do Jord<C4>o, Serra do Mar ^40, ^15 , Serra Bocaina Remold . Up to about 2200 meters.
10735 >: 5085 Flight Pattern:
Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved
Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic
Structured account sections
Description
19 cm. A conspicuous flycatcher of the campos. Head white with a grayish hue on the neck. Light brown above. Rump and upper half of the tail white: lower half of the tail black. Wings black with white bases to the flight feathers which show in flight as a broad white band. White rims to the inner secondaries and the tertials. Below white.
Voice
I have never heard a sound from this species. Sick mentions a dawn song, a monotonous song "jew" repeated at intervals of 1 -5 seconds: infrequently this whistle is also heard at night when it is easily confused with an insect voice. ^30 .
Behavior
Forages by perch to ground sallies in open country. Hovers a lot. Also seen near farms perching on top of telephone poles, fences and bushes. Conspicuous and not particularly shy.
Habitat and status
Not uncommon in campo with bushes and low trees, also in Eucalyptus. More common inland.
Distribution
In this area more a bird of the uplands | Serra Mantiqueira, Campos do Jord<C4>o, Serra do Mar ^40, ^15 , Serra Bocaina Remold . Up to about 2200 meters.
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative
Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical
Release history
This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.
Disc 3in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011)in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
