Thursday, January 29, 2026

Ochre-Bellied Flycatcher

On March 19, 2023 I was at Tinamu Reserve near Manizales, Colombia. I was with their top birding guide, who spoke Spanish, and his girlfriend, who spoke English. We were down in a canyon with heavy tree cover and encountered an ochre-bellied flycatcher. It was standing on a tree limb and was obscured by another tree limb which also made auto-focus on the bird difficult. All I have are these very poor photos. It was identified by my guide, which I wrote down, and the illustration of it from Birds of the World, below, clearly indicates the same. 


Illustration of Ssp. parcus from Birds of the World. 
There are seven subspecies. The nominate ssp. oleagineus has a greenish olive head, nape, back and rump. The wings are olive with buffy edges that show as wingbars. The tail is grayish brown or dusky olive. The throat and underparts are cinnamon buff. Males and females have the same plumage. Other subspecies differ slightly. Ssp. parcus is found from the Canal Zone in eastern Panama, across west-central and northern Colombia and into northwestern Venezuela and south in the valleys of Colombia's Cauca and Magdalena rivers. 
Range from Birds of the World. 

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