Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Suiriri Flycatcher (Suiriri suiriri) - HBW 9, p. 276
French: Tyranneau suiriri
German: Grauscheitel-Olivtyrann
Spanish: Fiofío Suirirí
Other common names: Chaco/Southern Suiriri Flycatcher (suiriri); Campo/Northern Suiriri Flycatcher (affinis, bahiae)
Taxonomy: Muscicapa suiriri Vieillot, 1818, Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay.
Genus traditionally placed near Elaenia and allies on basis of external morphology, but syringeal data suggest closest to Ornithion and allies. Until recently, S. islerorum was included as an undescribed form of present species. Races affinis and bahiae together sometimes treated as a separate species, but former intergrades broadly with nominate in Bolivia; latter suspected by some as being of hybrid origin (following secondary contact of affinis with a hypothetical remnant population of ancestral suiriri in NE Brazil). Three subspecies recogn.. View all taxonomy...
Genus traditionally placed near Elaenia and allies on basis of external morphology, but syringeal data suggest closest to Ornithion and allies. Until recently, S. islerorum was included as an undescribed form of present species. Races affinis and bahiae together sometimes treated as a separate species, but former intergrades broadly with nominate in Bolivia; latter suspected by some as being of hybrid origin (following secondary contact of affinis with a hypothetical remnant population of ancestral suiriri in NE Brazil). Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- affinis (Burmeister, 1856) - Surinam, E Brazil (W Pará, Amapá, and from Maranhão, W Piauí and W Bahia S to most of Mato Grosso, Goiás and São Paulo) and N Bolivia (Beni).
- bahiae (Berlepsch, 1893) - NE Brazil (Paraíba, Pernambuco, NE Bahia).
- suiriri (Vieillot, 1818) - E Bolivia, S Brazil, Paraguay, N & E Argentina and Uruguay.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on its perch, looking around and flying away Locality Agua Fria, Chapada dos Guimaraes, Mato Grosso State, Brazil (ssp affinis)
Frank Witebsky 31 May 2007 4 years ago 24 sec 3.9 -
A bird preening and moving Locality Camiri, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia (ssp suiriri)
Josep del Hoyo 11 August 2005 6 years ago 18 sec 3.4 -
A bird in a tree, calling twice. Locality Ceibas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (ssp suiriri)
Josep del Hoyo 24 September 2008 3 years ago 30 sec 3
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A bird perching on the twig
Locality Passo do Lontra, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 11 August 2010 27 weeks ago 3.8 -
A bird perched
Locality Chapada dos Guimaraes, Mato Grosso State, Brazil (ssp affinis)
Arthur Grosset 30 August 2000 2 years ago 2.3
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Calls from a bird responding to a pygmy-owl imitation. Locality San José de las Salinas, Córdoba Province, Argentina
(ssp suiriri)
Nick Athanas 18 December 2006 2 years ago 4.5
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