Myiodynastes maculatus
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
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 |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Streaked Flycatcher sighting in Ostional Wildlife Refuge on a given day, based on 172 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 37th most-seen of the 182 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May and October
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Streaked Flycatcher in Ostional Wildlife Refuge on a given day, against about 10% in August and November, the lowest months.
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.
8th of 54
Of the 54 parks where we can rate Streaked Flycatcher sightings, Ostional Wildlife Refuge ranks 8th at about 30%. The best odds are in Tayrona National Natural Park (Colombia, about 40%), Chagres National Park (Panama, about 30%) and Carara National Park (Costa Rica, about 30%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Streaked Flycatcher is recorded against all the birds logged in Ostional Wildlife Refuge (172 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
