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Dusky-capped Flycatcher

Myiarchus tuberculifer · Family Tyrannidae

Myiarchus tuberculifer

Family Tyrannidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
GBIF occurrence records
552,072
Countries and territories with records
21
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia · Myiarchus tuberculifer tuberculifer, Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Myiarchus_tuberculifer_-_Dusky-capped_Flycatcher_XC250183.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 552,072 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (20.9%), the United States (18.8%), Mexico (16.2%), Belize (9.6%) and Guatemala (6.3%); together they account for 71.7% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.44% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Myiarchus tuberculifer combines the genus name Myiarchus with the species epithet tuberculifer. The Warbla app catalog lists 22 species of the genus Myiarchus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Myiarchus crinitus, Myiarchus cinerascens and Myiarchus tyrannulus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 24th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 4 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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