Orange-eyed Flycatcher

About the Orange-eyed Flycatcher

The orange-eyed flatbill or orange-eyed flycatcher (Tolmomyias traylori) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Though the first specimens of the orange-eyed flatbill were collected in the 1860s it was not recognized as a distinct species until the 1980s and then formally described in 1997. Its specific epithet honors Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to ornithology" and who "long ago [had] singled out as unusual the Field Museum's two specimens of the species".

The orange-eyed flatbill is monotypic. The orange-eyed flatbill is about 13.5 cm (5.3 in) long; one male weighed 11.5 g (0.41 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a cinnamon forecrown with olive-gray tips on the feathers. They have an olive-gray crown, buff lores, a pale eye-ring, and cinnamon-buff ear coverts. Their nape, back, rump, and uppertail coverts are pale olive-green. Their wings are dusky with greenish yellow edges on the greater coverts that form two wing bars and thin olive-green edges on the flight feather edges, some of which also have... Wikipedia →