Image via Macaulay Library
Baird's Flycatcher
- Scientific name
- Myiodynastes bairdii
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Habitat
- Woodland
- Wing shape
- Pointed
- Tail shape
- Notched
Where it came from
Baird's Flycatcher was formally described by the ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence in 1866. The species is named in honor of Spencer Fullerton Baird, a preeminent American naturalist and the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, whose influence on 19th-century zoological classification and the collection of type specimens was profound.
The bird is a member of the Tyrannidae family, specifically recognized for its distinctive heavy, dark-streaked plumage and the bold, notched tail that assists its agile aerial maneuvers. It is native to the arid and semi-arid deciduous forests of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru, occupying a specialized ecological niche that was documented by naturalists exploring the Tumbesian region during the mid-to-late 1800s.
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