Euler's Flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Stanley Jones
South Wild, south of Poconê, Mato Grosso, Brazil, August 2015

Lathrotriccus euleri

Identification

Subspecies lawrencei
Photo by rka
Covigne Rd, Trinidad, April 2018

12·7–13·5 cm (5-5¼ in)

• Brown olive above
• Pale yellow belly
• White throat
• Brown breast
• 2 pale buff wing-bars
• Flat bill, black upper mandible and a yellow lower mandible

Distribution

Caribbean and South America:
Caribbean: Lesser Antilles and Trinidad
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies^[1]:

• L. e. flaviventris:

• Grenada (Lesser Antilles). Extinct

• L. e. lawrencei:

• Extreme eastern Colombia to northern Venezuela and Suriname; Trinidad

• L. e. bolivianus:

• Eastern Ecuador to northern Bolivia, southern Venezuela and Amazonian Brazil

• L. e. argentinus:

• Eastern Bolivia to Paraguay and northern Argentina; winters to eastern Brazil

• L. e. euleri:

• South-eastern Brazil to north-eastern Argentina; winters to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

An additional subspecies johnstonei is generally considered to be invalid^[2].

Habitat

Woodland, humid forest, secondary growth, open forest borders, often near bamboo.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes insects, beetles, bugs, ants, cicadas and spiders.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Arthur Grosset
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved January 2016)
5. Wikipedia

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