Nombre en español: Plañidera Grisácea

Nombre en ingles: Grayish Mourner

Nombre científico: Rhytipterna simplex

Familia: Tyrannidae

Foto: Daniel Orozco

Canto: Peter Boesman

La plañidera gris (Rhytipterna simplex), también denominada plañidera amazónica y plañidera grisácea, es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Tyrannidae que vive en Sudamérica.

Descripción

La plañidera gris mide unos 20 cm de longitud. Presenta una pequeña cresta en el píleo. Su plumaje es gris, más claro en las partes inferiores, con matices amarillo limón en el vientre y teñido de castaño en las alas y la cola. Su iris es rojizo.

Distribución y hábitat

Se encuentra en Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, la Guayana francesa, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela.

Sus hábitats naturales son las selvas húmedas tropicales de regiones bajas, preferentemente a menos de 800 m de altitud, pero a veces hasta los 1.400 msnm.

Greyish mourner

The greyish mourner (Rhytipterna simplex) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

The Grayish Mourner inhabits the middle and upper strata of humid forest, is widely distributed across the vast majority of Amazonia, where it is typically fairly common, and is also found in the Atlantic Forest of eastern Brazil, in which region it is generally much rarer. In the 19th century, the Grayish Mourner was frequently placed in the Cotingidae, and throughout its range the species is perhaps most likely to be confused with a cotingid, the Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans), which is larger, rather darker gray, and its paler irides. The Grayish Mourner is rather unusual among tyrant-flycatchers in that the sexes can be differentiated on plumage, with females displaying usually obvious brownish fringes to the wing and tail feathers. Despite the species’ undoubted abundance, almost nothing is known about its breeding biology.