Flavescent Flycatcher
Photo © Cullen Hanks
Photo © Cullen Hanks — CC BY 4.0 — Source: iNaturalist #66279739The flavescent flycatcher (Myiophobus flavicans) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. == Taxonomy and systematics == The flavescent flycatcher was originally described as Myiobius flavicans. The flavescent flycatcher has these five subspecies: M. f. flavicans (Sclater, PL, 1861) M. f. perijanus Phelps, WH & Phelps, WH Jr, 1957 M. f. venezuelanus (Hellmayr, 1920) M. f. caripensis Zimmer, JT & Phelps, WH, 1954 M. f. superciliosus (Taczanowski, 1875) == Description == The flavescent flycatcher is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs 10.2 to 12.9 g (0.36 to 0.46 oz). The sexes have almost identical plumage. Adult males of the nominate subspecies M. f. flavicans have an olive crown with a mostly hidden yellow or orange patch in the middle. Females do not have this patch. Both sexes have a yellowish line above the lores and thin yellowish broken eye-ring on an otherwise olive face. Their back and rump are olive. Their wings are dusky with cinnamon edges on the flight feathers and cinnamon to ochraceous tips of the wing coverts; the latter show as two or three wing bars. Their tail…
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