Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Baird's Flycatcher (Myiodynastes bairdii) - HBW 9, p. 413
French: Tyran de Baird
German: Pazifischer Maskentyrann
Spanish: Bienteveo de Baird
Taxonomy: S[aurophagus] bairdii Gambel, 1847, California; error = Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Affinities of genus uncertain; for long hypothesized as being closest to Conopias, largely on basis of similar hole-nesting tendencies. Genus probably monophyletic, although this only weakly supported by recent analyses of molecular-sequence data (likely due to inappropriate markers for the apparently long branches and deep level of divergence within genus). Findings from separate analyses of plumage/syringeal morphology and molecular data were not completely congruent, but evidence indicates that present species is basal to two main clades, one containing M. hemichrysus and .. View all taxonomy...
Affinities of genus uncertain; for long hypothesized as being closest to Conopias, largely on basis of similar hole-nesting tendencies. Genus probably monophyletic, although this only weakly supported by recent analyses of molecular-sequence data (likely due to inappropriate markers for the apparently long branches and deep level of divergence within genus). Findings from separate analyses of plumage/syringeal morphology and molecular data were not completely congruent, but evidence indicates that present species is basal to two main clades, one containing M. hemichrysus and M. chrysocephalus and the other M. luteiventris and M. maculatus. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Ecuador (C Manabí, from N side of Bahía de Caráquez, S to El Oro and W Loja) and NW Peru (S on Pacific slope to Ancash and to N Lima).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird in the top of a palm tree. Locality Chaparrí Reserve, Lambayeque Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Yoel Jimenez 17 November 2012 17 weeks ago 21 sec 3.8 -
in a palmtree Locality Chaparrí Reserve, Lambayeque Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 17 November 2012 10 weeks ago 31 sec 3.6 -
rear, side view in canopy Locality Jorupe Reserve, Loja Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 10 April 2011 1 year ago 29 sec 3.3
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A bird perched up at Quebrada Frejolillo.
Locality Limon Canyon, Olmos, Lambayeque Department, Peru
neil osborne 17 January 2012 7 weeks ago 3.3 -
Bird sitting on a wire
Locality Zapotillo, Loja Province, Ecuador (Monotypic species)
Pia Öberg 5 February 2007 1 year ago 3.2
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calls of a perched bird Locality Jorupe Reserve, Loja Province, Ecuador
(Monotypic species)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 2 February 2010 3 years ago 3
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