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[[Image:GRAY_SILKY_em_9370.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by blubird<br>Location: Copola, Mexico]]
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[[Image:d11_2054.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Photo by {{user|Gary+Clark|Gary Clark}}<br />Location: [[Michoacán]], [[Mexico]]]]
 
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==Identification==
 
==Identification==
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18.5-21cm.  Slender bird with gray head, crest, and upperparts.  Prominent white eye-ring and dark gray lories.  Throat and chest gray, flanks olive grading to bright yellow on undertail coverts.  The tail has a broad white band that is prominent from below when perched.  Flight feathers are black.  An attractive, alert upright bird at perch.
 
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==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
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This is a bird of [[Mexico]] and [[Guatemala]].    Its range begins in the north in the Sierra Occidental Mountains in southwest [[Chihuahua]] and [[Sonora]], as well as the Sierra Oriental Mountains in sourthern [[Coahuila]] and [[Nuevo Leon]].  The range extends through the those ranges through the mountains of Guatemala, but does not extend into Honduras.  Accidental vagrant to southern [[Caiifornia]] and [[Texas]] (2 records).
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[[North America]]: [[California]], [[Mexico]], [[Guatemala]]<br />
  
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Accidental vagrant to [[Texas]] (2 records).
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
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Silky-flycatchers used to be in the ''Bombycillidae'' (Waxings and Silky FC), but are now usually considered in their own family, ''Ptilogonatidae''.
 
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====Subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>====
 
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*''P. c. otofuscus'':
 
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Silky-flycatchers used to be in the ''Bombycillidae'' (Waxings and Silky FC), but are now usually considered in their own family, ''Ptilogonatidae''.
 
==Habitat==
 
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Mid to upper levels of humid to semiarid mixed forests and edges.  Travels in pairs or small flocks, (rarely) up to a few hundred birds.  Typically found from 1000-3500m. in elevation, lower in winter in the northern climes.
 
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Feeds on fruit and insects.  Nest is a cup of plant materials located in the saddle of a bush or tree.  Lays two eggs.
 
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==References==
 
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#{{Ref-Clements6thDec08}}#Avibase
 
#{{Ref-Clements6thDec08}}#Avibase

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Ptilogonys cinereus
Photo by blubird
Location: Copola, Mexico

Identification

Distribution

North America: California, Mexico, Guatemala

Accidental vagrant to Texas (2 records).

Taxonomy

Subspecies[1]

  • P. c. otofuscus:
  • Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico
  • P. c. cinereus:
  • Highlands of central and eastern Mexico
  • P. c. pallescens:
  • Highlands of south-western Mexico (eastern Michoacán and Guerrero)
  • P. c. molybdophanes:

Silky-flycatchers used to be in the Bombycillidae (Waxings and Silky FC), but are now usually considered in their own family, Ptilogonatidae.

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Avibase

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External Links

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