#1362 · 🐦 birds

Social Flycatcher

🇳🇱 Roodkruintiran ·Myiozetetes similis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Lip Kee Yap · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Scott Buckel · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Chia⚡aka Cory Chiappone · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Scott Loarie · CC0
7. © David Sarkozi · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Erick Noe Tapia Banda · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © sandytrailslvr · CC BY-ND 4.0

what is it?

The social flycatcher ( Myiozetetes similis ) is a passerine bird from the Americas, a member of the large tyrant flycatcher family (Tyrannidae).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 31,713iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
31,713 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825 (201 years ago).