How do you identify a Venezuelan Flycatcher?

The Venezuelan flycatcher is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 27 to 33 g (0.95 to 1.2 oz). Full identification notes are on this page.

How big is a Venezuelan Flycatcher?

The Venezuelan Flycatcher is a small sized bird weighing about 30 g.

Where can you see a Venezuelan Flycatcher?

The Venezuelan Flycatcher occurs in 3 countries, including Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago.

What does a Venezuelan Flycatcher sound like?

You can listen to a field recording of the Venezuelan Flycatcher on this page, contributed to xeno-canto under open licences.

What birds look similar to a Venezuelan Flycatcher?

The Venezuelan Flycatcher is most easily confused with the Lesser Antillean Flycatcher, the Rufous-tailed Flycatcher and the Grenada Flycatcher.

Is the Venezuelan Flycatcher endangered?

The Venezuelan Flycatcher is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.

Venezuelan Flycatcher

Myiarchus venezuelensis

Tyrant Flycatchers and Allies · Passeriformes · Rare

The Venezuelan Flycatcher (Myiarchus venezuelensis) is a rare tyrant flycatcher found in 3 countries, weighing about 30 g. The Venezuelan flycatcher is a passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers.

Least ConcernRareEats invertebratesforestcavity nest30 g

About the Venezuelan Flycatcher

The Venezuelan flycatcher is a passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Venezuela, and on Tobago.

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How to identify it

The Venezuelan flycatcher is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 27 to 33 g (0.95 to 1.2 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark olive-green to brownish olive crown and upperparts. The crown has a slight crest and is slightly darker in the center, giving a streaked effect. Their lores are gray that extends to a short supercilium. Their cheeks are gray and their ear coverts brownish olive. Their wings are mostly dusky with thin rufous outer edges on the primaries. Voice: The Venezuelan flycatcher's dawn song is "a repeated of plaintive whistles (no huit notes)". Its day song is similar but not often heard. It also gives "repeated hiccup calls, rasps, rasp-whistles a whistled wheer-r-r".

What the Venezuelan Flycatcher sounds like

Recording: Rosa Elena Albornoz @rosaelena_naturaleza · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Where it lives

Colombia Venezuela Trinidad & Tobago

When to see it

Best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, October, November, December, with peak activity in January. It is a variable species across most of its range.

Easily confused with

Quick questions

How do you identify a Venezuelan Flycatcher?: The Venezuelan flycatcher is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs 27 to 33 g (0.95 to 1.2 oz). Full identification notes are on this page.
How big is a Venezuelan Flycatcher?: The Venezuelan Flycatcher is a small sized bird weighing about 30 g.
Where can you see a Venezuelan Flycatcher?: The Venezuelan Flycatcher occurs in 3 countries, including Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago.
What does a Venezuelan Flycatcher sound like?: You can listen to a field recording of the Venezuelan Flycatcher on this page, contributed to xeno-canto under open licences.
What birds look similar to a Venezuelan Flycatcher?: The Venezuelan Flycatcher is most easily confused with the Lesser Antillean Flycatcher, the Rufous-tailed Flycatcher and the Grenada Flycatcher.
Is the Venezuelan Flycatcher endangered?: The Venezuelan Flycatcher is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.

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