Amazonian Scrub-Flycatcher Sublegatus obscurior Scientific name definitions

Amazonian Scrub-Flycatcher is a widespread songbird of lowland northern South America.  Found throughout the Orinoco and northern Amazon drainages, the species inhabits edges of terra firme forest as well as adjacent clearings.  It is olive above with blackish wings edged in buff, whitish supercilium, and a gray throat that blends into dull yellow underparts.  Amazonian Scrub-Flycatcher is similar to the Northern Scrub-Flycatcher but has duller underparts with less contrast.  The song, a repetitive two-part whistle, can be useful in detecting this uncommon flycatcher.

Amazonia from E Colombia, S Venezuela and the Guianas S to E Ecuador, E Peru, N Bolivia and NC Brazil (S to N Mato Grosso (1 Lees, A. C., K. J. Zimmer, C. A. Marantz, A. Whittaker, B. J. W. Davis, and B. M. Whitney (2013). Alta Floresta revisited: an updated review of the avifauna of the most intensively surveyed locality in south-central Amazonia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 133(3):178–239. Close ) and E to Paragominas area (2 Lees, A. C., N. G. Moura, A. Santana, A. Aleixo, J. Barlow, E. Berenguer, and T. A. Gardner (2012). Paragominas: a quantitative baseline inventory of an eastern Amazonian avifauna. Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 20(2):93–118. Close ), NE Pará).