Yucatan Flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

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

Myiarchus yucatanensis

Identification

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

Similar species

Brown-crested Flycatcher and Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.

Taxonomy

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

Habitat

Dry forests.

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

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Yucatan Flycatcher. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 2 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yucatan_Flycatcher

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