Swainson's Flycatcher

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae

Genus

Myiarchus

eBird Code

swafly1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (4)

• Myiarchus swainsoni ferocior

  breeds from southeastern Bolivia (southwestern Santa Cruz southward to Tarija) and western Paraguay southward to central Argentina (La Pampa and Buenos Aires); winters in western Amazonia, from southern Colombia southward to northern Bolivia

• Myiarchus swainsoni pelzelni

  southeastern Peru and northern Bolivia eastward, along the southern and eastern borders of Amazonia, to eastern Brazil, from eastern Pará to Ceará, southward to Minas Gerais

• Myiarchus swainsoni phaeonotus

  southern Venezuela and the Guianas to lower Amazonian Brazil (upper Rio Negro and Rio Branco)

• Myiarchus swainsoni swainsoni

  breeds in eastern Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil (northward to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro); winters in northern South America, from eastern Colombia, Venezuela, and Trinidad eastward and southward to Paraíba, Brazil