Rusty-margined Flycatcher

Myiozetetes cayanensis (Linnaeus, 1766)

Rusty-margined Flycatcher, Myiozetetes cayanensis, breeds from Panama through South America to south-eastern Brazil and is a member of the tyrant flycatcher family. It is a bird of partly open country, using cultivated land, clearings, pastures with shrubs, gallery forest and forest edges, and it also occurs beside rivers and oxbow lakes in the Amazon Basin. It is usually found near water. The sexes look alike, and adults have a dark crown with a concealed yellow to orange patch, a white eyebrow, brown upperparts, bright yellow underparts and a stubby black bill.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: Panama to se Brazil