Orange-eyed Flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name: Orange-eyed Flatbill

Photo by Mark Harper
Explorama Lodge, Peru, November 2014

Identification

13.5 cm

Buff supraloral area and ear-coverts
Cinnamon forehead with olive-grey feather tips
Dusky grey crown contrasting with olive-green upperparts
Duskier wings and tail
Two yellowish wingbars
Whitish-buff throat
Ochraceous-buff wash across breast
Dull buffy chest
Bright yellow belly, tinged olive on flanks
Creamy undertail-coverts
Broad, flat bill, relatvely small, upper mandible black, lower mandible pale purple

Sexes similar. Juvenils undescribed.

South-east Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and northeast Peru.
Rare and local, but probably often overlooked in its small range.

This is a monotypic species.

Found in middle levels, subcanopy and borders of várzea forest, below 400 m.
Gray-crowned Flycatcher occupies the canopy of the same forest type, Yellow-margined Flycatcher prefers terra firme forest and Yellow-breasted Flycatcher is found in Cecropia-dominated river islands and second growth.

Feeds on insects. Forages usually singly, sometimes in mixed flocks.

No information available.

Presumably a resident species. Probably resident.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and D Christie, eds. 2004. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 9: Cotingas to Pipits and Wagtails. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334696

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Orange-eyed Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Orange-eyed_Flycatcher