Variegated flycatcher
| Variegated flycatcher | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Empidonomus Cabanis & Heine, 1859 |
| Species: | E. varius |
| Binomial name | |
| Empidonomus varius (Vieillot, 1818) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Empidomonus varius (lapsus) | |
The variegated flycatcher (Empidonomus varius) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family. With the crowned slaty flycatcher being moved to its own genus, this is now the only species remaining in Empidonomus.
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.
Accidental in North America north of Mexico, there have been only six records, Maine (1977), Tennessee (1984), Ontario (1993), Washington (2008), and 2 sightings in Florida (2013 and 10/26/2015).
It is similar to the smaller piratic flycatcher and larger sulphur-bellied flycatcher.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Empidonomus varius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.