Variegated Flycatcher

Variegated Flycatcher

Variegated Flycatcher: Medium flycatcher, dark brown-and-black scaled upperparts, brown eye-line on pale face, thin brown moustache stripe, dark-streaked, pale yellow underparts. Dark pale edged wing feathers. Dark tail feathers with thick rufous edges. Eats insects, berries, fruits.

● Song: "zreeeee", "chee-chee-chuuuuuuu"

● Foraging & Feeding: Variegated Flycatcher: Eats mostly insects, berries, and fruits; forages from a low perch, flying out to catch insects in mid-air, and then returning to perch to eat.

● Breeding & nesting: Variegated Flycatcher: Three to four white to pale buff eggs heavily spotted with red brown are laid in a cup nest made of twigs, bark, leaf stems, and grass, and built on a horizontal tree branch 8 to 25 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 14 to 16 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Variegated Flycatcher: Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher is larger, has brighter yellow underparts more heavily streaked with brown, more rufous on tail and rump, and wider moustache stripe.

Flight Pattern