Cocos Island Flycatcher | endemiccostarica

Cocos Island Flycatcher - Nesotriccus ridgwayi

The small 13 cm bird has a mellow yet notable appearance. They are grey will a decently sized bill, greyish-olive to dark brown head/top, fait/dull eybrows, dusky wings with two-wing bars, a pale yellow-brown underpart, and olive breast.

Coco Flycatcher

The Flycatcher inhabits Cocos Island, occupying a very small habitat. Although the Flycatcher maintains a steady 10,000 to 20,000 population, many think their species is at ricks. Because of their small habitat, the introduction of new herbavors isn't obviously affecting their population currently, but their numbers could easily dwindle if the new herbivores/environment tampering starting hurting their chances of survival.
- Threatened by new rats and feral cats, and pigs which destroy their habitat
The Cocos Flycatcher tends to live in subtropical or tropical swamps, lowland forests, montane forests, wooded ravines or even shrubland. Regularly observed in second grown, but becuase of the degrading habitat, their favorite type of vegitation may not exist in their full lifetinme.

Cocos Flycatcher in Shrubland

The Flycatcher tends to have a dry vioce, which potrays a trill that varies in speed and intensity
Enjoy living in the secondary growth forests, occupying a large range in habit
- Enjoy living in areas from sea-level to the tall hill, from the upper understory to the lower canopy.

Structure of a Forest