Golden-crowned Flycatcher

The golden-crowned flycatcher is 18.5 to 22 cm (7.3 to 8.7 in) long and weighs about 37 to 40 g (1.3 to 1.4 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a brownish gray to dusky crown with a usually hidden golden-yellow patch in the center. They have a long white supercilium on an otherwise mostly grayish dusky face. Their upperparts are mostly dull olive with a greenish olive rump and uppertail coverts; the last have cinnamon or buffy edges at their tips. Their wings are dusky with thin rufous to tawny-buff edges on the coverts and flight feathers. Their tail is mostly dusky with some rufous edgers on the feathers. Their chin is white, their throat pale buffy, their breast buffy yellow, and the rest of their underparts pale yellow. Their breast has a cloudy suffusion of pale grayish olive or olive in the center and olive streaks on its sides. The species has a black to dark brown iris, a stout black bill, and blackish legs and feet.

The golden-crowned flycatcher is found on the eastern slope of the Andes from south of the Marañon River in northern Peru's Amazonas Department south through central Bolivia slightly into northwestern Argentina's Salta Province. It inhabits the edges and canopy of foothill and montane forest and woodland and also cloudforest. It especially favors openings in the forest, both human-made and natural as caused by landslides and fallen trees. It also occurs along roads and watercourses. In elevation it ranges between 600 and 2,700 m (2,000 and 8,900 ft) in Peru and 350 and 3,100 m (1,100 and 10,200 ft) in Bolivia.

The golden-crowned flycatcher feeds on insects and fruit. It usually forages singly or in pairs and occasionally joins mixed-species feeding flocks but does not follow them. It perches from the forest's lower to mid-levels and takes prey in mid-air by hawking and prey and fruits with short upward sallies to glean it from vegetation or while briefly hovering.