Sooty-crowned Flycatcher
Myiarchus phaeocephalus Sclater, PL, 1860
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Sooty-crowned Flycatcher, Myiarchus phaeocephalus, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family that breeds in western Ecuador and northern Peru. It lives mainly in dry deciduous woodland and arid scrub, and also uses the margins of mangrove forest. The nominate form ranges from north-western Ecuador into north-western Peru, while interior occurs in the Marañón watershed from south-eastern Ecuador into northern Peru. It is a year-round resident. The species was described by Sclater, PL, 1860, and has a distinctive pale grey collar separating the crown from the back.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: w Ecuador and n Peru
