Tuesday 22 February 2011

Boat-billed Flycatcher


The Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus piragua) is a passerine bird. It is a big despot flycatcher, the only member, monotypic, of the species Megarynchus.
It breed in open forest with a few tall trees from Mexico south to Bolivia and Argentina, and during to Trinidad.
The case, build by the female, is an open bowl of firewood. The archetypal clasp is two or three whitish eggs greatly blotched with russet. These are incubating regularly by the female for 17–18 days with a added 24 days to fledging.
Grown Boat-billed Flycatchers are 23 cm long. The head is black with a physically powerful white eye stripe and a obscured yellow crown strip. The upperparts are olive-brown, and the wings and tail are brown with only pale refocus border. The under parts are yellow and the gullet is white.
The colossal black bill, which gives this genus its English and generic names, is the finest difference from the parallel Great Kiskadee, which also has more refocus tail and wings, and lack the olive tone to the upperparts. The identify is a vociferous trilled nya, nya, nya.
Boat-billed Flycatchers stay on a covered alight high in a tree and sally out to grasp insect in flight. They will also take invertebrates off the plant life and eat a few berries.

Reference:
. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entrance include good reason for why this genus is of slightest anxiety.
French, Richard (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd edition ed.). Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.
Hilty, Steven L (2003). Birds of Venezuela. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5.

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