Gray-capped Flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

Nominate subspecies
Photo © by Robert L Jarvis
La Selva, Costa Rica, 22 March 2011

Identification

16–18 cm (6¼-7 in)
Notice the whitish supercilium meeting over the bill; eye should be pale to medium if seen well.

Tropical Kingbird lacks the whitish supercilium.

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

Eastern Panama (Darién) to western Ecuador and extreme north-western Peru (Tumbes)

Eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, northern Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil

Roadside trees near farms, gardens, and second-growth woodlands, often near streams. Observed at heights around 488 m (1,600 ft).

Mostly feeding below canopy.

There diet consists of insects, berries and seeds.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Mobley, J. (2019). Grey-capped Flycatcher (Myiozetetes granadensis). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/57458 on 24 July 2019).
Gray-capped Flycatcher (Myiozetetes granadensis), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/grcfly1
Schulenberg, T. S. & Stotz, D. F. & Lane, D. F. & O'Neill, J. P. & Parker III, T. A. & Egg, A. B. (2010). Birds of Peru: Revised and Updated Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691130231

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Gray-capped Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gray-capped_Flycatcher

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