Boat-billed Flycatcher

About this species

This species has 663,313 occurrence records from 24 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (23.5%), Brazil (19.6%), Mexico (10.5%), Colombia (9.4%) and Honduras (5.1%); together they account for 68.1% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.6% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Megarynchus pitangua combines the genus name Megarynchus with the species epithet pitangua. It is the only species of the genus Megarynchus in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 20th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 4.8 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Tyrannidae

• Eastern phoebe
• Eastern kingbird
• Eastern wood pewee
• Black phoebe
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Great Kiskadee
• Tropical kingbird
• Least Flycatcher
• Social flycatcher
• Scarlet Flycatcher

Credits & data sources

• Wikidata
• GBIF.org