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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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When to see the Variegated Flycatcher
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Variegated Flycatcher
The map shades 14 countries with regular records, and 4 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 United States, Canada, Curaçao, Panama.
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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