Gray-crowned Flycatcher (Tolmomyias poliocephalus)

Identification & Behavior: ~13.5 cm (5.2 in). The Gray-crowned Flycatcher has yellow-olive upperparts. The wing coverts and flight feathers are edged with yellow. The breast is dull yellowish and grades to deeper yellow towards the belly. The crown is gray. The bill is mostly black with a pale base on the lower mandible. It has a pale gray iris, pale eye-ring, and thin pale loral line. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of edges of varzea forests, river islands, and tall second growth, often in the company of mixed species flocks. The similar Yellow-margined Flycatcher forages in Terra-Firme forest. Also, see Yellow-Olive Flycatcher.

Status: The Gray-crowned Flycatcher is common and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 1300 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Pico-Ancho de Corona Gris.

Sub-species: Gray-crowned Flycatcher (Tolmomyias poliocephalus poliocephalus), (Taczanowski), 1884.

Meaning of Name: Tolmomyias: Gr. tolma, tolmes= courage, boldness muia= fly and piazo= to seize, myias= flycatcher. poliocephalus: Gr. polios= grey, grizzled and kephalos, kephale= headed, head.

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