Identifying Costa Rican FLYCATCHERS | Myiarchus Flycatchers in Costa Rica

Struggling to identify flycatchers? We all are! In the second video of our series, we have a look at the tricky Myiarchus flycatchers.

⏰ Timestamps

0:00 Intro
0:59 Dusky-capped Flycatcher
1:36 Great Crested Flycatcher
2:28 Brown-crested & Nutting's Flycatcher
3:29 Panama Flycatcher
4:05 Comparison & Summary

Especially for birders unfamiliar with New World Flycatchers, this large family of birds can cause some serious headaches. Is the bird in the tree a White-ringed Flycatcher or "just" a Social Flycatcher? How can I tell apart the Pewees? And is there ANY way to distinguish those pesky Empidonax flycatchers?

I've had these questions many times - and I'm seriously hoping that I can't be the only one. So, let's have a look at Costa Rica's flycatchers together and let's see if we can find a way to make our lives a little bit easier.

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📝 Attributions:

Dusky-capped Flycatcher:
Images by Charlie Jackson and Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren, both under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sound by Alain Malengreau, XC580904.
Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/580904.

Great Crested Flycatcher:
Images by gary_leavens and Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States, both under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sound by Peter Boesman, XC274135. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/274135
Visualization of the migration is taken from eBird:
https://ebird.org/science/status-and-...
Fink, D., T. Auer, A. Johnston, M. Strimas-Mackey, S. Ligocki, O. Robinson, W. Hochachka, L. Jaromczyk, C. Crowley, K. Dunham, A. Stillman, I. Davies, A. Rodewald, V. Ruiz-Gutierrez, C. Wood. 2023. eBird Status and Trends, Data Version: 2022; Released: 2023. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. https://doi.org/10.2173/ebirdst.2022

Brown-crested Flycatcher:
Image by Don Faulkner under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Sound by Eric Hynes, XC443817. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/443817

Nutting's Flycatcher:
Image by sussexbirder under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Sound by Manuel Grosselet, XC726605. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/726605.

Panama Flycatcher:
Images by Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia, and Dominic Sherony, both under CC BY-SA 2.0 and via Wikimedia Commons.
Sound by Scott Olmstead, XC45131. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/45131

📝 Cornell Lab of Ornithology Disclaimer:

This material uses data from the eBird Status and Trends Project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, eBird.org. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.