Two pictures of boat-billed flycatchers, made by Carl Beel in
Suriname in 2008, that make the stout bill of this flycatcher
clearly visible.
If you know the sound of the
boat-billed flycatcher (the screaming sound "hya hya
hya" in this recording, made by Ottema, not the whistle of
the Finsch's euhonia with which it begins) you can hear them
almost everywhere, but especially calling from trees on open
places. The bird looks like the more common Great kiskadee, but
it clearly has a heavier bill (and another call). Some have a
yellow, some an orange patch on their head, but in this pictures
you don't see the patch. A second
call was recorded at Palumeu by Ribot. Below the text a photo
made by N. Takano (personal
museum of natural history) in August 2004 near the indian
village of Powaka on the Afobaka road.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations on different days and the largest ones 10 or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
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Photos of flycatchers and other birds from Suriname
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