Brown-crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus) |
Pictures (click on them to enlarge) | ||
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© Carl Beel | © Dominiek Plouvier | © Erik Toorman |
© Dominiek Plouvier | © Klaas de Jong | © Dominiek Plouvier |
© Alexander Elias |
The Brown-crested Flycatcher is common in the mangrove stands near the sea, it can still be found near Paramaribo. It finds insects in trees and shrubs. The mangrove, by the way, protects the land from the rising sea as the mud under the trees slowly builds up as the sea level rises. So besides the richness of species it supports, the mangrove also stands out as usefull against inundations. Just remarking this because it seems to disappear everywhere in the world. The sound of the Brown-crested flycatcher was recorded by Alexandre Renaudier in Mana, French Guiana, near the border with Suriname. Photo by Carl Beel at Weg naar Zee in Suriname in September 2008 and by Dominiek Plouvier. The last person also made the video of the brown-crested Flycatcher. |
Birdsounds (click on them to listen) | ||
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Sound recording of a Brown-crested Flycatcher © Alexandre Renaudier |
Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see) | ||
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Video recording of a Brown-crested Flycatcher © ; |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 145 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The 6 reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |