Sepia-capped Flycatcher (Leptopogon amaurocephalus)

Other Names (World)
Sepia-capped Flycatcher, Sepia-capped Leptopogon

Family
Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers)

Size
13 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Tschudi, 1846

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, swamp forest. From sea-level - 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

Sepia-capped Flycatcher (Leptopogon amaurocephalus) [XC737364]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Cristian\u00f3polis, Fazenda Marco Polo - Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (song)

Sepia-capped Flycatcher (Leptopogon amaurocephalus) [XC692030]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Taquaral de Goi\u00e1s, Taquaral de Goi\u00e1s, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Subspecies may be divided into three plumage types, "nominate group" (also including pileatus and idius), the single-taxon "diversus group" and "peruvianus group" (with orinocensis). These intergrade with one another, and many specimens from southern Mexico closely resemble others from north-eastern Argentina. Differences within populations exceed those alleged to occur among many of the named subspecies. Described taxon faustus (Nicaragua south to central Panama) indistinguishable from and merged with pileatus, and obscuritergum (southern Venezuela in Amazonas and south-eastern Bol��var) inseparable from and merged with orinocensis.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

pileatus Cabanis, 1866 - Humid lowlands from southern Mexico and Yucat�n Peninsula south to central Panama.
idius Wetmore, 1957 - Coiba I, off south-western Panama.
diversus Todd, 1913 - North-central Colombia (from Santa Marta region and Magdalena Valley south to Tolima) and extreme north-western Venezuela (Zulia).
orinocensis Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1946 - Venezuela (from southern T�chira, Barinas and Portuguesa east to Bol��var and Amazonas), the Guianas and northern Brazil (Amap�).
peruvianus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868 - Eastern Colombia (southern from Norte de Santander), eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia (Beni, La Paz, Cochabamba), and western Brazil (Amazonas and Rond�nia east to northern Mato Grosso).
amaurocephalus Tschudi, 1846 - Southern and eastern Brazil (southern from Mato Grosso, southern Maranh�o and Pernambuco), eastern Bolivia (Santa Cruz south to Tarija), Paraguay and north-western and north-eastern Argentina (south to Salta, Jujuy, Misiones and Corrientes).

References
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Files:

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