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[[Image:Lesser_Antillean_Flycatcher.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by njlarsen]] | [[Image:Lesser_Antillean_Flycatcher.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by njlarsen]] | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Upperside dark olive-grey with two beige wing-bars on wings that otherwise are brown and reddish. Tail has the brown coloring with reddish inner webs. Underside is grey down until the middle of the breast and yellow below that. Bill is broad and black and surrounded by bristles. The tip of the upper mandible is hooked. | Upperside dark olive-grey with two beige wing-bars on wings that otherwise are brown and reddish. Tail has the brown coloring with reddish inner webs. Underside is grey down until the middle of the breast and yellow below that. Bill is broad and black and surrounded by bristles. The tip of the upper mandible is hooked. | ||
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Mostly in forest edge | Mostly in forest edge | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| − | Often keeps out of sight of the [[ | + | Often keeps out of sight of the [[Gray Kingbird]] by sitting on lower branches and flycatching down below the tree or gleaning insects from leaves. |
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Myiarchus+oberi}} | {{GSearch|Myiarchus+oberi}} | ||
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Myiarchus]] | [[Category:Birds]][[Category:Myiarchus]] | ||
Revision as of 08:30, 24 March 2009
- Myiarchus oberi
Identification
Upperside dark olive-grey with two beige wing-bars on wings that otherwise are brown and reddish. Tail has the brown coloring with reddish inner webs. Underside is grey down until the middle of the breast and yellow below that. Bill is broad and black and surrounded by bristles. The tip of the upper mandible is hooked.
Distribution
This species in endemic to the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, occurring in St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Christopher, Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia.
Taxonomy
The species is divided into four subspecies. It has previously been associated with Stolid Flycatcher of Bahamas and the Greater Antilles.
Habitat
Mostly in forest edge
Behaviour
Often keeps out of sight of the Gray Kingbird by sitting on lower branches and flycatching down below the tree or gleaning insects from leaves.
