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Northern Scrub Flycatcher
Sublegatus arenarum (Salvin, 1863)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Northern Scrub Flycatcher, Sublegatus arenarum, is a passerine of Middle America and northern South America, breeding from Costa Rica to the Guianas. It belongs to the tyrant flycatcher family and is a resident bird. It is a small flycatcher with the sexes alike, and the nominate form has a shaggy-looking crown at times, a pale face marked by a dark eye line, and a yellow belly set off from the paler breast. The species occupies mangroves, scrub, dry woodland, thorny country and desert, usually low in vegetation.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: Costa Rica to the Guianas
