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Stolid Flycatcher vs Yucatan Flycatcher

Stolid Flycatcher (Myiarchus stolidus)

Stolid Flycatcher

Myiarchus stolidus

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The stolid flycatcher is 20 cm (7.9 in) long and weighs about 19 to 26 g (0.67 to 0.92 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have an olive-green crown that has a small crest. Their face is dark gray. Their upperparts are mostly olive-green with slightly lighter uppertail coverts. Their wings are mostly brown with thin rufous edges on the primaries and pale grayish white edges on the outer webs of the secondaries and tertials. The wing's greater and median coverts have wide pale grayish white tips that show as two clear wing bars. Voice: The stolid flycatcher's song is a "rolling whee-ee-ee, swee-ip, bzzrt". On Hispaniola it also makes a "plaintive jui".

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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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