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[[Image:Lesser_Antillean_Flycatcher.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by njlarsen]] | [[Image:Lesser_Antillean_Flycatcher.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by njlarsen]] | ||
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A typical Myiarchus with a weak crest. Upperside are dark olive-gray with two beige wing-bars on wings that otherwise are brown and reddish. Tail has the brown coloring with reddish inner webs. Underside is gray down until the middle of the breast and yellow below that. Bill is broad and black and surrounded by bristles. The tip of the upper mandible is hooked. | A typical Myiarchus with a weak crest. Upperside are dark olive-gray with two beige wing-bars on wings that otherwise are brown and reddish. Tail has the brown coloring with reddish inner webs. Underside is gray down until the middle of the breast and yellow below that. Bill is broad and black and surrounded by bristles. The tip of the upper mandible is hooked. | ||
| − | ==Distribution | + | ==Distribution== |
| − | This species in endemic to the [[Lesser Antilles]] in the [[Caribbean]], occurring in [[St. Kitts]] and [[Nevis]], [[St. Christopher]], [[Barbuda]], [[Guadeloupe]], [[Dominica]], [[Martinique]], and [[St. Lucia]]. The species is divided into four subspecies. It has previously been associated with [[Stolid Flycatcher]] of [[Bahamas]] and the [[Greater Antilles]]. | + | This species in endemic to the [[Lesser Antilles]] in the [[Caribbean]], occurring in [[St. Kitts]] and [[Nevis]], [[St. Christopher]], [[Barbuda]], [[Guadeloupe]], [[Dominica]], [[Martinique]], and [[St. Lucia]]. |
| + | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | The species is divided into four subspecies. It has previously been associated with [[Stolid Flycatcher]] of [[Bahamas]] and the [[Greater Antilles]]. | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
Mostly in forest edge and e.g., citrus plantations above 100 m / 300 feet. Less commonly in dry forest and below 100 m. | Mostly in forest edge and e.g., citrus plantations above 100 m / 300 feet. Less commonly in dry forest and below 100 m. | ||
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Often keeps out of sight of the [[Grey Kingbird]] by sitting on lower branches and flycatching down below the tree or gleaning insects from leaves. | Often keeps out of sight of the [[Grey Kingbird]] by sitting on lower branches and flycatching down below the tree or gleaning insects from leaves. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Revision as of 19:25, 17 June 2007
- Myiarchus oberi
Identification
A typical Myiarchus with a weak crest. Upperside are dark olive-gray with two beige wing-bars on wings that otherwise are brown and reddish. Tail has the brown coloring with reddish inner webs. Underside is gray down until the middle of the breast and yellow below that. Bill is broad and black and surrounded by bristles. The tip of the upper mandible is hooked.
Distribution
This species in endemic to the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, occurring in St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Christopher, Barbuda, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia.
Taxonomy
The species is divided into four subspecies. It has previously been associated with Stolid Flycatcher of Bahamas and the Greater Antilles.
Habitat
Mostly in forest edge and e.g., citrus plantations above 100 m / 300 feet. Less commonly in dry forest and below 100 m.
Behaviour
Often keeps out of sight of the Grey Kingbird by sitting on lower branches and flycatching down below the tree or gleaning insects from leaves.
