Large and big-headed flycatcher with a long, heavy bill. Bright yellow below with a whitish throat. The head is gray with a darker gray ear patch.
Large flycatcher with a long notched tail. The tail is entirely brown unlike Western and Cassin's Kingbird. Bright yellow below with a gray head and darker ear patch.
Like other tyrant flycatchers, Tropical Kingbirds perch on lone branches or wires in open areas where they hunt flying insects.
Large tropical flycatcher that often perches in the open. Bright yellow below with a notched tail.
Vocal, big-headed flycatcher with a long notched tail. Yellow below with a whitish throat and a gray head. Note long bill.
Mainly eats insects, but will forage opportunistically for fruits.
Found in open country with scattered trees and shrubs.
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A powerfully built flycatcher with a big head and a heavy, long bill. It has pointed but broad wings, and its medium-length tail shows a shallow notch in the center.
Larger than a Western Kingbird, smaller than a Green Jay.
robin-sizedOrnithologists recognize three subspecies, which differ mostly in intensity of their plumage colors: satrapa from the United States south to Venezuela; despotes in eastern Brazil; and the larger melancholicus across the remainder of South America. Both despotes and melancholicus are more vividly yellow below than satrapa.
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