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Nutting's Flycatcher
Myiarchus nuttingi Ridgway, 1882
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Nutting's Flycatcher, Myiarchus nuttingi, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family that breeds in Middle America from western Mexico to north-west Costa Rica. It was described by Ridgway in 1882. It is a resident bird of forest and scrub in tropical and lower subtropical areas, including deciduous forest, gallery forest, thorn forest, and arid scrub, with a wider use of more humid forest in Costa Rica. The species is marked by a drab grey-brown crown with a slight crest, pale grey face, yellow underparts, and two wing bars.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- Middle America: w Mexico to nw Costa Rica
