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Sepia-capped Flycatcher
Leptopogon amaurocephalus Cabanis, 1846
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Sepia-capped Flycatcher, Leptopogon amaurocephalus, is a resident bird of Middle America and much of South America, with a broad breeding range across the region. It belongs to the tyrant flycatcher family and was described by Cabanis in 1846. It is widespread from Mexico through Central America and across mainland South America, though it is not recorded from Chile and is only a vagrant in Uruguay. It lives in lowland evergreen forest, mature secondary growth and plantations, and also uses semideciduous and gallery forest in some areas. Its breeding season includes April and May in Mexico, and it builds a hanging globular nest with a side entrance.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: widespread
