On 26 April John Hutchison and Russ Titus found an ABA Code-3, La Sagra's Flycatcher (Myiarchus sagrae) in Boca Raton, Florida, at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America has four photographs of La Sagra’s Flycatcher from the Bahamas of the subspecies M. s. lucaysiensis. The Myiarchus genus is numerically diverse with 22 species, but morphologically they are very similar in appearance, therefore voice recognition is the best clue for identification. Besides voice, (huit call notes) La Sagra's is often identified by its unusual forward-leaning posture and flat-headed appearance (Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 9). LaSagra’s has relatively short wings for a Myiarchus flycatcher and therefore most are resident or partially migratory.
Although not considered threatened, the entire range of La Sagra's Flycatcher is the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands (Birds of the West Indies, Raffaele et al.).
An excellent treatment of La Sagra’s Flycatcher can be found in the 1992 issue of Birding 24:294−296, by Smith and Evered. La Sagra's Flycatcher was first reported in the ABA Area in 1963 in Orrville, central Alabama, thought to be of the Cuban race, M. s. sagrae. Since the first report of this species in the ABA Area, at least 12 records and numerous reports have been recorded, all from south Florida, and these birds are thought to be of Bahamian origin, M. s. lucaysiensis, (ABA Checklist, Birds of the Continental United States and Canada, Fifth Edition).
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