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Lesser Antillean Flycatcher - BirdForum Opus

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Myiarchus oberi
Photo by njlarsen

Identification

Upperside dark olive-grey with two beige wing-bars on wings that otherwise are brown and reddish. Tail has the brown coloring with reddish inner webs. Underside is grey 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

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.

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