Adults are gray-olive on the upperparts with light underparts, washed with olive on the breast. They have two wing bars and a dark
bill with yellow at the base of the lower mandible. This bird is very similar in appearance to the
eastern wood pewee; the two birds were formerly considered to be one species. The call of
C. sordidulus is a loud buzzy
peeer; the song consists of three rapid descending
tsees ending with a descending
peeer. The bird is about in length, in weight, and has a
wingspan of . ==Habitat and ecology==