White-ringed Flycatcher Conopias albovittatus Scientific name definitions

The northwesternmost representative of the genus Conopias—four species of morphologically rather uniform flycatchers—the White-ringed Flycatcher is found from eastern Honduras south to northwest Ecuador. Primarily yellow below and olive-green above, with darker wings, the crown is very dark with a largely concealed yellow patch, contrasting with white supercilia that meet on the forehead and nape, thereby forming a diadem, blackish ear coverts, and a white throat. The White-ringed Flycatcher was occasionally considered to be conspecific with the Yellow-throated Flycatcher (Conopias parvus), but they differ in morphology (throat color) and voice, and these two species have occasionally been thought to form a separate genus, but this possibility too has been generally discounted. Like other Conopias, the White-ringed Flycatcher is an inhabitant of the canopy and borders of tall humid forest, and is usually found in pairs.

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