YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER, YAXCHILAN MAYAN RUINS,CHIAPAS,MEXICO, 11/10/2018

      We can ID this flycatcher as a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher as follows:

• Small size
• Strong white eyering 
• Two whitish wingbars strongly contrast with black wings
• Greenish chest and pale-yellow belly.  It should be noted that wintering birds, such as this one, do not have as much yellow as breeding ones
• Upper mandible of bill is dark, while lower mandible is pinkish
• Wings and tail which are darker than rest of upperparts, which are greenish

      The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 833.