The Gray-hooded Attila is endemic to the Atlantic forests of southeastern Brazil. They are found in humid lowland and montane forest and edge, also scrub; to 1500 m. Adults have a gray head and nape. Their upperparts are mostly deep rufous with a paler cinnamon-rufous rump and tail. Their wings are mostly deep rufous with blackish primaries. Their chin is gray with white streaks. Their breast is rufous and their belly a paler yellowish rufous. The grey-hooded attila primarily feeds on large arthropods and also includes fruit in its diet. It typically forages singly or in pairs and sometimes joins mixed-species feeding flocks. It forages at all levels on the forest including on the ground.. Not globally threatened. Uncommon to fairly common; apparently more common at lower elevations.
