Yellow-olive Flycatcher - Tolmomyias sulphurescens

Yellow-olive Flycatcher (Tolmomyias sulphurescens)(aka Yellow-olive Flatbill)

Brazil

The Yellow-olive Flycatcher has an extensive range stretching from Mexico to northern Argentina. It is likely that more than one species is involved.

It is more of a woodland than a forest bird but is also found on Amazon river islands and similar riverside habitat.

Yellow-olive Flycatcher, Pirapora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 2002 - click for larger image

Like most flycatchers, it is difficult to identify with the voice being generally more reliable. It is olive above with a grey head, white lores and a narrow eye-ring. The wings are dark with yellow edging and two yellow wing-bars. The bill is flat, black above and pale below. The throat is pale, the breast olive and the belly pale yellow. It is sometimes seen trembling with outstretched wings.

The Yellow-olive Flycatcher builds a hanging nest which can be conspicuous and consists of a retort-like nest chamber with a long entrance tube attached to the side.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 37; Hilty & Brown, Plate 37; Ridgely & Greenfield, Plate 68; and Sick, Plate 35.

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