Ochre-bellied Flycatcher

Mionectes oleagineus (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823)

Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, Mionectes oleagineus, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family found from southern Mexico through Central America into Amazonia and eastern Brazil. It is a resident bird of humid and wet forest, including forest edges, secondary growth, gallery forest, plantations and gardens, and it also uses várzea and terra firme in the Amazon Basin. Its range reaches Trinidad and Tobago and northern South America. The species has a greenish olive upper body in the nominate form, with rich cinnamon buff below, and the sexes look alike.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: s Mexico through Amazonia and e Brazil