Photo © by Stanley Jones
Ancon Hill, Panama City, Panama Province, Panama, 28 April 2012
- Myiodynastes maculatus
Identification
Photo © by Wes Syposz
Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 4 October 2007
19·5–23 cm (7¾-9 in) long; weight 43 g.
The head is brown with a yellow crown patch, usually concealed; dusky eye mask and a white supercilium.
Upperparts are brown with darker brown streaks on the back. Wings have rufous and white edges; tail and rump have chestnut edges.
Underparts are yellowish-white, with marked brown streaks. Sexes similar. Juvenile birds have brown coloring where the adults are black.
Variations
Southernmost breeders have blacker streaks on upperparts and tail mainly blackish, while the majority of the range has tail mainly rufous. Central American breeders yellower in face and more olivaceous above.
Similar species
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher has a stronger malar, about as strong as the black through the eye, black chin, and often bigger flesh-colored area at base of lower mandible. See also identifying similar species.
Distribution
Breeds from Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago south to Bolivia and Argentina.
Taxonomy
Distinctive dark tailed, more heavily marked subspecies M. m. solitarious sometimes split as separate species, "Southern Streaked Flycatcher."
Subspecies
Seven subspecies are recognized:[1]
- M. m. insolens - Mexico to Honduras
- M. m. difficilis - Costa Rica to Colombia and Venezuela
- M. m. nobilis - Caribbean coast of Colombia
- M. m. chapmani - Pacific Colombia to northwest Peru
- M. m. maculatus - Venezuela and Guianas to northeast Peru and northern Brazil
- M. m. tobagensis - north Venezuela and Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago
- M. m. solitarius - southern Peru to Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and southern Brazil
Habitat
Edges of forests and cocoa plantations.
Behaviour
Typical flycatcher, perching on branch or twig and sallying forth to catch flying insects.
Diet
As well as flying insects they also eat small lizards, and berries.
Breeding
Nests in a tree hollow or bromeliad plant, building a cup-shaped nest of twigs and grasses. Female builds the nest and lays 2-3 eggs, which are creamy-white with red-brown spots. Incubation is 16-17 days, and both parents feed the young, which fledge in 18-21 d
Vocalisation
Has a noisy sqEEE-zip call. ays.
Movements
The northernmost subspecies M. m. insolens migrates south to South America in northern winter, while the southern subspecies M. m. solitarius, migrates to the Guianas and Venezuela from March to September.
References
- Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Ridgely and Tudor 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America - The Passerines. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71979-8
- BirdForum Member observations
- Mobley, J. & Kirwan, G.M. (2019). Northern Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus). 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/57471 on 27 July 2019).
- Shah, S. (2012). Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.strfly1.01
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Streaked Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 9 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Streaked_Flycatcher
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