Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus), photo 4 — Photo: Ezequiel Vera · CC BY 4.0

Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus), photo 5 — Photo: Anthony Mora Aguilar · CC BY 4.0

Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus), photo 6 — Photo: Anthony Mora Aguilar · CC BY 4.0

Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus), photo 7 — Photo: Matias Cabezas · CC BY 4.0

Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus), photo 8 — Photo: Emilio Maillo · CC BY 4.0

Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus), photo 9 — Photo: Emilio Maillo · CC BY 4.0

What the Streaked Flycatcher sounds like

Sonogram of the Streaked Flycatcher: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Rosa Elena Albornoz @rosaelena_naturaleza · Call · Aragüita (near La Fila), Acevedo, Miranda, Venezuela · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Call · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Call, song · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

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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When to see the Streaked Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Streaked Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 20 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Panama Argentina Ecuador Peru Venezuela Paraguay Bolivia Trinidad & Tobago Uruguay Belize Mexico Guyana French Guiana Guatemala Nicaragua Suriname Honduras

Recorded as a rare visitor in Caribbean Netherlands, Chile.

About the Streaked Flycatcher

The streaked flycatcher is a passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Mexico, in every South American country except El Salvador, in Trinidad and Tobago, in every mainland South American country, and as a vagrant to Bonaire.

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Easily confused with

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).

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).

Baird's FlycatcherMyiodynastes bairdiiBaird's flycatcher is about 23 cm (9.1 in) long; one female weighed 45 g (1.6 oz).

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