Myiodynastes maculatus
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The streaked flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus) is a passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Mexico, in every South American country except El Salvador, in Trinidad and Tobago, in every mainland South American country (though only as a vagrant to Chile), and as a vagrant to Bonaire.
The streaked flycatcher's taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, the North and South American Classification Committees of the American Ornithological Society, and the Clements taxonomy assign it these seven subspecies: m. insolens Ridgway, 1887
What is now M. m. solitarius was originally described as a species, Tyrannus solitarius. Though it was later moved to genus Myiodynastes it was treated by many authors as a full species into the twentieth century. By about the middle of the century most taxonomists had reassigned it as a subspecies of M. maculatus. BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) long treated... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 5 | São Luís | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Goiânia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 8 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Manaus | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque Municipal Summit | 🇵🇦 Panama |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Streaked Flycatcher sighting in Belém on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 117th most-seen of the 144 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and August–September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Streaked Flycatcher in Belém on a given day, against under 5% in July and October–May, the lowest months. Those are among Belém's driest months, with about 120 mm of rain a month against 440 mm in March.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Streaked Flycatcher sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
23rd of 28
Of the 28 cities where we can rate Streaked Flycatcher sightings, Belém ranks 23rd at under 5%. The best odds are in Campo Grande (Brazil, about 20%), Buenos Aires (Argentina, about 20%) and Campinas (Brazil, about 20%).
Same family: Tyrannidae
The closest relatives of the Streaked Flycatcher that you can see in Belém (family Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers) are Great Kiskadee (about 90%), Tropical Kingbird (about 70%) and Spotted Tody-Flycatcher (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Streaked Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Belém (7 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
