Cattle Tyrant vs Streaked Flycatcher

Cattle Tyrant

Machetornis rixosa

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The cattle tyrant is a highly terrestrial tyrant flycatcher, 19.5–20 cm (7.7–7.9 in) long and weighing 29–40 g (1.0–1.4 oz). The plumage of the nominate subspecies is mostly olive-brown above and yellow below, with a grey head with a thin dark eyestripe and a paler, whitish throat. The thin bill and legs are black. The two other subspecies differ from the nominate in having the head less grey, more like the olive-brown of the back, and a yellower throat.

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Photo: Frank Thomas Sautter · CC0

Streaked Flycatcher

Myiodynastes maculatus

Small43 gForest

The streaked flycatcher is 20.5 to 23 cm (8.1 to 9.1 in) long and weighs 36.5 to 50 g (1.3 to 1.8 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. m. maculatus have an olive to olive-brown crown and nape with thin cinnamon edges on the feathers and a large, partially hidden, bright yellow to orange-yellow patch in the center of the crown. They have black lores; the color extends to the ear coverts and forms a dark "mask". They have a dull white to yellowish white rather blurry supercilium and a white streak below the mask. Voice: The dawn song of northern populations of the streaked flycatcher has variously been described as "cheer-o-wee-wee, right-here-to-me, kawe-teedly-wink, wheeé-cheederee-wheeé, or as a rising note followed by a short musical chatter: reEET-chewlew'put".

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Recording: Rosa Elena Albornoz @rosaelena_naturaleza · CC0

Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Anthony Batista · cc-by

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Cattle Tyrant and Streaked Flycatcher.