Grenada flycatcher | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tyrannidae |
Genus: | Myiarchus |
Species: | M. nugator |
Binomial name | |
Myiarchus nugator Riley, 1904 | |
The Grenada flycatcher (Myiarchus nugator) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the brown-crested flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus).
It is found in Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
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The brown-crested flycatcher is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family.
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Nutting's flycatcher is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in semi-arid desert scrub and tropical deciduous forest from western Mexico to northwest Costa Rica. It is normally a year-round resident, but has been known as an occasional vagrant to southern California and Arizona–(southeastern, central, and western), in the United States. It is named for the zoologist Charles Cleveland Nutting.
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The flammulated flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Deltarhynchus but was moved to the genus Ramphotrigon based on genetic analysis. It is endemic to the dry deciduous forest, arid thorn forest, and scrubby woodland of Mexico’s Pacific coast. The flycatcher is an olive to gray-brown bird with a streaked, pale gray chest, white throat, black bill, dark gray feet, and dark brown wings. It is a skulking bird that typically remains hidden in the underbrush. It feeds by gleaning insects off of leaves and twigs that it spots from an exposed perch. The female lays approximately three eggs in a nest made in a shallow tree cavity.
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Swainson's flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
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The Yucatan flycatcher is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae.