Warbla

Warbla · Library

Rusty-margined Flycatcher

Myiozetetes cayanensis · Family Tyrannidae

Myiozetetes cayanensis

Family Tyrannidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
GBIF occurrence records
328,420
Countries and territories with records
19
Rusty-margined Flycatcher
Julian Londono from Manizales, Colombia · Myiozetetes cayanensis -Manizales, Caldas, Colombia-8.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Julian Londono from Manizales, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Oliver Komar · Myiozetetes_cayanensis_-_Rusty-margined_Flycatcher_XC464412.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oliver Komar · 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 328,420 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (59.3%), Brazil (12.3%), Panama (8.2%), Ecuador (7.8%) and Venezuela (6.3%); together they account for 94% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.73% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Myiozetetes cayanensis combines the genus name Myiozetetes with the species epithet cayanensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Myiozetetes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Myiozetetes similis, Myiozetetes granadensis and Myiozetetes luteiventris.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 29th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 2.4 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Tyrannidae

Credits & data sources