Belted Flycatcher

About the Belted Flycatcher

The belted flycatcher (Xenotriccus callizonus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is known in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico and possibly occurs in Honduras. The belted flycatcher was originally described and its genus Xenotriccus erected for it in 1927. It and the pileated flycatcher (X. mexicanus) are the only members of the genus.

The belted flycatcher is monotypic. The belted flycatcher is 11.5 to 13 cm (4.5 to 5.1 in) long; one male weighed 13.0 g (0.46 oz) and a female 11.5 g (0.41 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adult males have a mostly brownish olive head with a pointed blackish brown or olive gray crest and a wide white or pale lemon teardrop-shaped eye-ring. Their upperparts are mostly brownish olive with pale cinnamon brown uppertail coverts. Their wings are dusky brown with wide pale cinnamon ends on the coverts that show as two wing bars. They have pale cinnamon edges on their tertials and the same color as a panel on their secondaries. Their tail is dusky brown with pale gray edges on the outer webs of the outer feathers. Their throat is yellowish white. They have a wide... Wikipedia →