Variegated flycatcher

Variegated flycatcher
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

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.

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