Rusty-margined Flycatcher (Myiozetetes cayanensis)

Identification & Behavior: ~17 cm (6.8 in). The Rusty-margined Flycatcher has brown upperparts. It has a black crown and sides of the head with a broad white superciliary. The iris is dark. The throat is white and the rest of the underparts bright yellow. The primary flight feathers have rusty webbing showing a rusty panel on the folded wing. It forages at lake edges, and in open areas generally near water. It is very similar to the Social Flycatcher but is distinguished by the rusty webbing on the flight feathers, a darker crown and sides of the head, dark iris, and perhaps more reliably, by its voice. Also, see Lesser Kiskadee.

Status: The Rusty-margined Flycatcher is uncommon but local. It is known to occur in extreme southeast Peru in the Madre de Dios and extreme northeast Loreto. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Mosquero de Ala Castaña.

Sub-species: Rusty-margined Flycatcher (Myiozetetes cayanensis cayanensis), (Linnaeus), 1766.

Meaning of Name: Myiozetetes: Gr. muia, muias= fly and zetetes, zeteo = searcher, to seek.
cayanensis: Cayenne or French Guiana. In early ornithology “Cayenne” was often used of species of uncertain provenance presumed to be from Amazonia.

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