Nombre en español: Atrapamoscas Ocráceo

Nombre en inglés: Ochre-bellied Flycatcher

Nombre científico: Mionectes oleagineus

Familia: Tyrannidae

Canto: Peter Boesman

El mosquero aceitunado, mosquerito de buche acanelado o atrapamoscas ocráceo Mionectes oleagineus, es una especie de ave de la familia Tyrannidae, que se encuentra en Belice, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guayana francesa Guyana, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Perú, Surinam, Trinidad y Tobago y Venezuela.

Hábitat

Vive en el bosque húmedo, incluso sobre suelos arenosos, y en los bordes del bosque, especialmente a los largo de arroyos, hasta los 1.700 m de altitud.

Descripción

Mide 13 cm de longitud y pesa 11 g. La base de la mandíbula es rosada a naranja. Tienen las partes superiores y el pecho de color verde oliva; las mejillas y la garganta oliva grisáceo; el vientre es de color naranja opaco; las alas y la cola son parduzcas con bordes estrechos ocráceos y líneas delgadas ferruginosas.

Alimentación

Se alimenta principalmente de frutas con arilos como las de Clusia y de bayas como las de Psychotria y otras Rubiaceae.

Reproducción

Construye un nido en forma de pera con entrada lateral, suspendido de una liana o bajo el barranco de un arroyo. La hembra pone dos o tres huevos, que incuba durante 18 a 20 días.

Ochre-bellied flycatcher

The ochre-bellied flycatcher (Mionectes oleagineus) is a small bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds from southern Mexico through Central America, and South America east of the Andes as far as southern Brazil, and on Trinidad and Tobago.

This is a common bird in humid forests, usually in undergrowth near water. It makes a moss-covered ball nest with a side entrance, which is suspended from a root or branch, often over water. The female incubates the typical clutch of two or three white eggs for 18–20 days, with about the same period for the young, initially covered with grey down, to fledge.

Adult ochre-bellied flycatchers are 12.7 cm long and weigh 11g. They have olive-green upperparts, and the head and upper breast are also green. The rest of the underparts are ochre-coloured, there are two buff wing bars, and the feathers of the closed wing are edged with buff. The male is slightly larger than the female, but otherwise similar.

There are a number of subspecies, which differ in the distinctness of the wing bars or the shade of the upperparts. This species was previously placed in the genus Pipromorpha.

Ochre-bellied flycatcher is an inconspicuous bird which, unusually for a tyrant flycatcher, feeds mainly on seeds and berries, and some insects and spiders.

The calls of the male include a high-pitched chip, and a loud choo. His display includes jumping, flutter-flight and hovering. He takes no part in rearing the young.