About the Variegated Flycatcher
The variegated flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found on Trinidad and in every mainland South American country except Chile. In addition it has been documented as a vagrant in several U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario.
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The variegated flycatcher is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs about 25 g (0.88 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a blackish or blackish brown crown with a mostly hidden yellow patch in the center, a long white supercilium that extends almost around the nape, a wide dusky band from the lores to the ear coverts, and whitish cheeks with a dusky band below them. Their upperparts are mostly dusky or dark brownish with pale whitish streaks that give a mottled appearance. Voice: The variegated flycatcher is usually rather quiet. It makes a "harsh "chee-chee-chu" call" whose last note is dragged out and also weak "high-pitched, thin and nasal pseee, zureee or zreeetee" calls, sometimes in a series. In Brazil it makes a "ver/extr. high, thin feeee-io" call.
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Where it lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Canada, Curaçao, Panama.
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
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