TYRANT FLYCATCHERS   -   TYRANNIDAE  -  PART III

Cinnamon Flycatcher Pyrrhomyias cinnamomeus assimilis San Lorenzo ridge, Sierra de Santa Marta, Magdalena department, Colombia. A very distinctive subspecies endemic to the Santa Marta mountains, with much brighter cinnamon plumage. (D3)		Euler's Flycatcher Lathrotriccus euleri bolivianus Ilha Anavilhanas, Rio Negro, Amazonas state, Brazil. It just might win the prize as the dullest member of the family. (D3)

Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea sclateri Loreto road, Napo province, Ecuador. (D2)		Cliff Flycatcher Hirundinea ferruginea sclateri Loreto road, Napo province, Ecuador. A more typical perch. (D2)

Fuscous Flycatcher Cnemotriccus fuscatus bimaculatus(?) Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. A widespread bird in tropical South America, but often local and easily overlooked. (S5f)

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris North of Mapastepec, Chiapas state, Mexico. A winter resident in Mexico and Central America, breeding in eastern North America. (S5)

Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri Monte Alban, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Here at about the southern limit of its range, where it is only a winter resident. (S5)

"Western" Flycatcher Empidonax difficilis/occidentalis Southwest of San Miguel Suchixtepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico. It is notoriously hard, and some would say impossible, to separate these in the field unless they are vocalizing. (S5)		Black-capped Flycatcher Empidonax atriceps Savegre Mountain Lodge, San José prov., Costa Rica The most distinctive member of this often confusing genus; it is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. (D3)

Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens flavescens Savegre Mountain Lodge, San José prov., Costa Rica Found in montane forest from southern Mexico to Panama. (D3)		Yellowish Flycatcher Empidonax flavescens salvini Tacaná Volcano, Chiapas state, Mexico. (S5f)

Smoke-colored Pewee Contopus fumigatus zarumae Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Pichincha province, Ecuador. (D1)		Greater Pewee Contopus pertinax pertinax Oaxaca Valley, Mexico. (S5f)

Tropical Pewee Contopus cinereus cinereus Hotel do Ypê, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (D4)		Tropical Pewee Contopus cinereus punensis San Marcos, Cajamarca department, Peru. This race is sometimes split (e.g. Birds of Ecuador by Ridgely and Greenfield) as Tumbes Pewee, C. punensis, due to its distinct vocalizations. (D2)

Blackish Pewee Contopus nigrescens canescens Serra dos Carajás, Pará state, Brazil. A rare and very local pewee occurring disjuctly in the eastern foothills of the Andes in Ecuador & Peru and in some isolated areas of the eastern Amazon. (D3)		Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens Parque La Florida, Bogotá, Colombia. Probably a passage migrant, since this is not typical wintering. There were at least three different individuals present that morning. (D3)

Belted Flycatcher Xenotriccus callizonus El Sumidero National Park, Chiapas state, Mexico. This species and the next are the only members of this genus - you can certainly see the similarity in form, but Belted Flycatcher definitely wins the beauty contest. It is found very locally from southern Mexico to El Salvador. (S5)

Pileated Flycatcher Xenotriccus mexicanus Monte Alban, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Formerly thought to be endemic to Mexico, but there is a recent record from Guatemala. (S5)

Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans angustirostris Urrao, Antioquia department, Colombia. South American races, with the broad white edging to the wing coverts, may deserve to be a distinct species. (D3)

Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus/blatteus Monte Alban, Oaxaca state, Mexico. (S5)

Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus rubinus Pousada Piuval, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. (D2)

Austral Negrito Lessonia rufa Pali Aike National Park, Region XII, Chile. (S5)

Cinereous Tyrant Knipolegus striaticeps San José de las Salinas, Córdoba province, Argentina. Male. (D3)

Amazonian Black-Tyrant Knipolegus poecilocercus Reserva Natural Palmarí, Amazonas state, Brazil. Female. (D3)

Blue-billed Black-Tyrant Knipolegus cyanirostris Hotel São Gotardo, Garganta de Registro, border of RJ and MG states. 13 October 2007. She was nesting in the window of my room at the hotel. I put the lens of my point-and-shoot camera right up against the glass and shot in macro mode. (P2)

Crested Black-Tyrant Knipolegus lophotes Serra da Canastra NP, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. (D2)

Velvety Black-Tyrant Knipolegus nigerrimus Hotel São Gotardo, border of Rio, São Paulo, and Minas Gerais, Brazil. Male. Endemic to east and southeast Brazil. It has a round, bushy crest which comes out well in this shot. The female has reddish streaks on the throat. (D3)

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