Black-tailed Flycatcher Myiobius atricaudus

Black-tailed Flycatcher Myiobius atricaudus

Brazilian name: Assadinho-de-cauda-preta

Chapada de Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
October 2008

The Black-tailed Flycatcher is distributed in a series of disjunct areas from Costa Rica to south-east Brazil. In the Amazon Basin it is found to the south of the river Amazon.

It inhabits a variety of forest and woodland types usually near water and, in the Amazon, it is found in várzea forest while Whiskered Flycatcher M. barbatus is found in terra firme forest

It looks very similar to Whiskered Flycatcher and the ease of separating the two depends partly on which area one is in as the sub-species vary within each species. In the case of eastern Brazil, the Black-tailed Flycatcher is uniform yellow below while the Whiskered Flycatcher has a tawny breast band contrasting with the yellow underparts.

It feeds on insects and spider, etc., in the lower and middle strata of the forest where it is often seen fanning its tail or drooping its wings.

There are recordings on xeno-canto, a distribution map from NatureServe and additional information available via Avibase .

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