The Crowned Slaty Flycatcher (Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus) is a species of bird

Bird

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 in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatcher

Tyrant flycatcher

The tyrant flycatchers are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America. They are considered the largest family of birds on Earth, with more than 400 species. They are the most diverse avian family in every country in the Americas, except for the United States and...

s. It was formerly united in the genus Empidonomus with the Variegated Flycatcher

Variegated Flycatcher

The Variegated Flycatcher is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. With the Crowned Slaty Flycatcher being moved to its own genus, this is now the only species remaining in Empidonomus....

, but is now considered the only species of Griseotyrannus. The name: Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus means: "Gray-tyrannus orange-colored black-crested".
It is found in Argentina

Argentina

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, Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

, Brazil

Brazil

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, Colombia

Colombia

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, Ecuador

Ecuador

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, Paraguay

Paraguay

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, Peru

Peru

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, Uruguay

Uruguay

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, and Venezuela

Venezuela

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.
Its natural habitat

Habitat

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s are subtropical or tropical dry forest

Forest

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s and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

The black-Crowned Slaty Flycatcher migrates into the mostly western and central Amazon Basin

Amazon Basin

The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries that drains an area of about , or roughly 40 percent of South America. The basin is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela...

 as a non-breeding resident, except in the southeast bordering the Cerrado

Cerrado

The Cerrado, is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Gioas and Minas Gerais...

 and Pantanal

Pantanal

The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and one of the world's largest wetland of any kind. Most of it lies within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay, sprawling over an area estimated at between and...

, where it is resident in much of the western cerrado and southwards; the migration occurs during the austral winter.

A curious fact about this bird is that its binomial is the longest of any bird species, fifteen syllables when spoken aloud.

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