Streaked Flycatcher

The streaked flycatcher is 20.5 to 23 cm (8.1 to 9.1 in) long and weighs 36.5 to 50 g (1.3 to 1.8 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. m. maculatus have an olive to olive-brown crown and nape with thin cinnamon edges on the feathers and a large, partially hidden, bright yellow to orange-yellow patch in the center of the crown. They have black lores; the color extends to the ear coverts and forms a dark "mask". They have a dull white to yellowish white rather blurry supercilium and a white streak below the mask. Their upperparts to the upper rump are grayish brown to olive with buffy edges and dusky shafts on the feathers that give a streaked appearance. Their lower rump and uppertail coverts are cinnamon-rufous with black or dusky streaks. Their wings are dusky with pale cinnamon-rufous edges on the lesser coverts and thin cinnamon-rufous edges on the outer webs of the other coverts and most of the flight feathers. Their tail is mostly cinnamon-rufous with dusky to black along the shafts that shows as streaks. Their chin and underparts are mostly white with yellowish flanks, lower belly, and undertail coverts. Their throat has thin dusky streaks and the breast and flanks have heavier streaks. …

The subspecies of the streaked flycatcher are found thus:

m. insolens: Gulf-Caribbean slope from southern Tamaulipas in Mexico south, including the southern Yucatán Peninsula, through Belize, northern Guatemala, and northwestern Honduras into northern Nicaragua; in migration to Colombia M. m. difficilis: southwestern Nicaragua south through western Costa Rica, through Panama including offshore islands, and across central Colombia into western Venezuela through Zulia and Táchira to Portuguesa M. m. nobilis: across Colombia from northern Córdoba Department including the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta into the western Serranía del Perijá M. m. chapmani: from Chocó Department in western Colombia south through western Ecuador into extreme northwestern Peru's Piura Department M. m. maculatus: Suriname, French Guiana, northern Brazil north of the Amazon from the upper Negro River east to northwestern Maranhão M. m. tobagensis: Venezuela except the west, Venezuela's Margarita Island, Trinidad, Tobago, and Guyana M. m. …

The streaked flycatcher feeds mostly on insects including large cicadas, locusts, and beetles. Its diet also includes berries and other fruits and there are records of it feeding on small lizards. It typically forages singly or in pairs and occasionally joins mixed-species feeding flocks. The migrants from southern South America eat a higher proportion of fruit than resident subspecies. The species forages mostly from the forest's mid-level to the canopy, and catches most insect prey in mid-air with short sallies from a perch. It also takes insects while briefly hovering or after a short glide, and takes fruit by gleaning while perched and while hovering.