Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher (Myiobius barbatus)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil

sulphur-rumped_flycatcher
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil

sulphur-rumped_flycatcher
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil

sulphur-rumped_flycatcher
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Manaus, Brazil


Identification & Behavior: ~12.5 cm (5 in). The Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher has olive-brown upperparts with a black tail the bird often flashes and spread wide while foraging for insects. It has a light yellow rump. It also has a golden-yellow crown patch that is better defined in the male. The breast is olive-brown to brown and grades to yellow towards the rest of the underparts. The bill is black with an orange base of the mandible. It forages in the understory of Terra-Firme forest in Amazonia. It is more likely to overlap with the similar Tawny-breasted Flycatcher along the foothill of the eastern Andes but is distinguished by smaller size, a less saturated plumage, and olive-brown breast. It also overlaps with the Black-tailed Flycatcher in Tumbes but is distinguished by darker upperparts and more saturated plumage.

Status: The Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher is uncommon and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 750 m along the foothill of the Andes. It is also fairly common in humid and semi-deciduous forests in Tumbes. The Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Mosquerito de Lomo Azufrado.

Sub-species: Sulphur-rumped Flycatcher (Myiobius barbatus aureatus), Bangs, 1908.  S Honduras S on Caribbean slope, and locally on Pacific slope in Costa Rica and Panama, to Pacific lowlands of W Colombia and W Ecuador and NW Peru.
(Myiobius barbatus barbatus), (J. F. Gmelin), 1789.
(Myiobius barbatus amazonicus), Todd, 1925.

Meaning of Name: Myiobius: Gr muia, muias= fly and bios= living, livelihood. barbatus: L. barba= beard. Barbatus= bearded.

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Distribution Map
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References:

    • Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum.  http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.