The social flycatcher is one of the black, white and yellow birds that look so similar to each other that I've had a hard time distinguishing them.
Wikipedia notes that it looks like a smaller version of the boat-billed flycatcher and great kiskadee and is very hard to distinguish from the rusty-margined flycatcher, white-bearded flycatcher, white-ringed flycatcher and lesser kiskadee. Some groups even consider the two subspecies of social flycatcher to be separate species: the social flycatcher for those found from Costa Rica to Mexico and the vermilion-crowned flycatcher for those found from southwest Costa Rica down into South America based on an orange to vermilion crown stripe that is typically not visible.
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Social flycatcher range from Wikipedia. |
I've seen what I believe to be two social flycatchers. One at Mashpi Amagusa Reserve in Ecuador last year and one at Tambopata Natural Reserve in Peru.
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In Ecuador. |
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In Peru. |
Are there ANTI-social flycatchers too?
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