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title: "Brown-crested Flycatcher"
description: "Myiarchus tyrannulus — Uccelli. The brown-crested flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus) is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/brown-crested-flycatcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Brown-crested Flycatcher

> Myiarchus tyrannulus — Uccelli. The brown-crested flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus) is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

- Scientific name: *Myiarchus tyrannulus*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 7924
- Wikidata: [Q903898](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q903898)
- iNaturalist taxon: [16016](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/16016)

## Names

- en: Brown-crested Flycatcher
- de: Cayennetyrann
- es: Papamoscas Gritón
- fr: Tyran de Wied
- pt: Maria-cavaleira-de-rabo-enferrujado
- pl: Muchołap tyranowaty

## Countries with the most observations

US (1841), MX (1584), BR (470), AR (201), HN (159), NI (78), CR (74), CO (68), BO (54), SV (47), TT (36), CW (32)

## Summary

The brown-crested flycatcher (Myiarchus tyrannulus) is a passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found from the southwestern United States south through Mexico and Central America to Costa Rica; on Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Trinidad, and Tobago; and in every mainland South American country except Chile and possibly Ecuador.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-crested_flycatcher

## Photo

![Brown-crested Flycatcher](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-crested-flycatcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Fernando Sessegolo · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/182876845

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-crested-flycatcher?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).