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Apical Flycatcher vs Yucatan Flycatcher

Apical Flycatcher (Myiarchus apicalis)

Apical Flycatcher

Myiarchus apicalis

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The apical flycatcher is a typical representative of the Myiarchus flycatchers: a slim, medium-sized bird with few really distinctive features. It is 17 to 18 cm (6.7 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 26 to 33.5 g (0.92 to 1.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a brownish olive crown; the crown has a slight crest and darker center feathers that give a streaked appearance. Their face is otherwise gray. Their upperparts are darkish olive. Voice: When confronted by a conspecific, the apical flycatcher makes "epeated rolls, hiccups and whistles". One call is a sharp repeated "weet".

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Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Yucatan Flycatcher (Myiarchus yucatanensis)

Yucatan Flycatcher

Myiarchus yucatanensis

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The Yucatan flycatcher is 17.5 to 19 cm (6.9 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 19 to 23 g (0.67 to 0.81 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a crown whose feathers have dark brown centers and wide rufescent edges; the feathers form a crest. They have grayish lores and half ring under the eye on an otherwise darker gray face. Their upperparts are olive-green with a rufous tinge on the uppertail coverts. Their wings are mostly brown with wide rufous outer edges on the primaries and pale grayish white outer edges on the other flight feathers. Voice: The Yucatan flycatcher's dawn song is "a pleasant whistled wuueeee! or a more drawn-out wuuueeeep!". Its calls include "a more agitated wee'wee'wee'wee'wee'weeeur and a prrrrrt".

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Photo: dfaulder · CC BY 2.0

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