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(M. y. yucatanensis)
Photo by Glen Tepke
Chichen Iza, Yucatan, Mexico, January 2011

Myiarchus yucatanensis

[edit] Identification

• Crown rufous
• Indistinct grey area around eye and at lores
• Both primaries and secondaries edged rufous
• Tertials edged whitish

[edit] Similar species

Brown-crested Flycatcher and Dusky-capped Flycatcher

[edit] Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• M. y. yucatanensis
  • Eastern Mexico (extreme eastern Tabasco and northern and central Yucatán Peninsula)
• M. y. lanyoni
  • Cozumel Island (off Yucatán Peninsula of eastern Mexico)
• M. y. navai
  • Southern Mexico (southern Quintana Roo) to northern Belize and Guatemala

[edit] Habitat

Dry forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] External Links