Long-tailed Tyrant

12 cm ; tail. An unmistakable black flycatcher with a white superciliary stripe and crown. The central pair of the tail feathers is about 12cm longer than the other tail feathers. <NFemales and young birds have a grayish belly and less white on crown and young birds lack the elongated central tail feathers. Calls are a breezy "wiee" or "wiu", "duwiii", and a "wi-didiwi", all very distinctive. Forages by employing aerial hawks from dead branches or tree tops usually high in the canopy. Relatively common in pairs in canopy of mature secondary and primary forest. Frequently also at borders and close to clearings Throughout. <8E>Serra Mantiqueira, Serra dos Org<C4>os, Serra do Mar, Fazenda Intervales<8E>to<8E>PE Jacupiranga, Iguape<8E>and<8E>Cananeia. Below 1000 meters. 13584 Call. Pirapora, 11<10>12<10>98. Cloudy, 25<91>C. Gallery forest. With /Synallaxis frontalis, Pitangus sulphuratus .: 12738 Calls. Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel do Ype, 1600 meters, 10<10>18<10>99. Cloudy, foggy with showers, 23<91>C. Primary forest. With /Pionopsitta pileata .: 6567 Calls. Cornell Cat 11045. Tingo Maria-Divisora Mountains, Huanuco, Peru, 11<10>3<10>79. With /Columba plumbea . Recording by T. A. Parker, III.: 12102 Song. Cornell Cat 82275. Hacienda Amazonica, Madre de Dios, Peru, 8<10>13<10>87, With Cyanocorax sp., Recording by P. K. Donahue.: 7954 >: