Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

Myiodynastes luteiventris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreWoodlandCavity nestSmall · 47 g

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The sulphur-bellied flycatcher is about 20 cm (7.9 in) long and weighs about 40 to 57 g (1.4 to 2.0 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a pale hoary gray or grayish white forecrown and supercilium. They have a brownish gray to olive crown with blackish streaks and a large, usually hidden, canary-yellow patch in the center. They have dusky lores; the color extends to the ear coverts and forms a dark "mask". Below the mask is a wide white stripe with thin dusky streaks and below that a thin dusky stripe. Voice: Only male sulphur-bellied flycatchers sing. The song is variously described as a "soft, liquid, almost warbled tre-le-re-re, tre-le-re-re", a "persistently repeated, a soft chu-eer", and a "clipped, slightly liquid phrase: chee-a-leet s-lik or chew-ee ti-lit or doo-ee ti-chu". Its "screech" call has been compared to "the protest of a wagon wheel that needs oiling".

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When to see the Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 3 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Chile, Venezuela.

About the Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

The sulphur-bellied flycatcher is a large member of the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is regularly found from southern Arizona in the United States south to Bolivia and occurs casually or as a vagrant further north, east, and south of its usual range.

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Easily confused with

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