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Golden-crowned Flycatcher

Myiodynastes chrysocephalus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCavity nestSmall · 38 g
Golden-crowned Flycatcher (Myiodynastes chrysocephalus), photo 1
Photo: The Lilac Breasted Roller from Sullivan's Island, United States · CC BY 2.0
Golden-crowned Flycatcher (Myiodynastes chrysocephalus), photo 2
Photo: The Lilac Breasted Roller from Sullivan's Island, United States · CC BY 2.0

What the Golden-crowned Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Golden-crowned Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · El Oro: Reserva Buenaventura 9 km WNW Piñas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Golden-crowned Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · El Oro: Reserva Buenaventura 9 km WNW Piñas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Golden-crowned Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · El Oro: Daucay, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The golden-crowned flycatcher is 18.5 to 22 cm (7.3 to 8.7 in) long and weighs about 37 to 40 g (1.3 to 1.4 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a brownish gray to dusky crown with a usually hidden golden-yellow patch in the center. They have a long white supercilium on an otherwise mostly grayish dusky face. Their upperparts are mostly dull olive with a greenish olive rump and uppertail coverts; the last have cinnamon or buffy edges at their tips. Their wings are dusky with thin rufous to tawny-buff edges on the coverts and flight feathers. Voice: The golden-crowned flycatcher's dawn song is "a loud, squeaky REE'chewee?" and its call a "metallic, slightly squeaky rew-TCHI?".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Golden-crowned Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Golden-crowned Flycatcher

Regular range

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Colombia Bolivia Argentina Ecuador Venezuela

About the Golden-crowned Flycatcher

The golden-crowned flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Baird's Flycatcher (Myiodynastes bairdii) Baird's FlycatcherMyiodynastes bairdiiBaird's flycatcher is about 23 cm (9.1 in) long; one female weighed 45 g (1.6 oz). Golden-bellied Flycatcher (Myiodynastes hemichrysus) Golden-bellied FlycatcherMyiodynastes hemichrysusThe golden-bellied flycatcher is 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) long and weighs about 39 to 42.5 g (1.4 to 1.5 oz). Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher (Myiodynastes luteiventris) Sulphur-bellied FlycatcherMyiodynastes luteiventrisThe sulphur-bellied flycatcher is about 20 cm (7.9 in) long and weighs about 40 to 57 g (1.4 to 2.0 oz).

Side by side: Golden-bellied Flycatcher vs Golden-crowned Flycatcher · Golden-crowned Flycatcher vs Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

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