Distribution

Flammulated Flycatcher is endemic to western Mexico; it is resident in the arid Pacific Slope lowlands to a maximum elevation of 1250 meters. Its distribution extends from Sinaloa to Oaxaca and western Chiapas (Miller et al. 1957, Binford 1989, Howell and Webb 1995, Parker et al. 1996).

Endemic to Mexico.

Flammulated Flycatcher is considered to be a specialist of undisturbed tropical deciduous forest (Hutto 1989, 1992). This species occupies arid and semiarid open thorn forest and woodland (Lanyon 1982, Howell and Webb 1995, Edwards 1998) with tall shrubs, low trees, dense thickets, hedgerows (Edwards 1998) or thorn forest (Howell and Webb 1995). The zoogeographic region is Pacific Arid Slope (Parker et al. 1996). At one site in southwestern Mexico, its local abundance (as indexed by mist net captures) peaks from May to August (representing the end of the dry season to the middle of the local wet season), but it is not known whether "birds are wary of mist nets, or that at least part of the population undergoes local migrations to habitats not sampled in this study (e.g. secondary forests)" (Vera Rivera et al. 2011).

None reported.

None reported.