Return of Bird of the Week: One-colored Becard

Among the hundreds of kinds of flycatchers, there is a genus called Becards. They occurs throughout the Neotropics, although one species, the Rose-throated Becard, occurs as far north as the far southern United States. Altogether there are 17 species of Becards. Sometimes WC suspects that ornithologists ran out of imaginative names for birds, and the poor One-colored Becard would be Exhibit A. Seriously, this is handsome bird; “one-colored” is the best ornithology can do? Becards as a group are large-headed  birds, and the One-colored is no exception. Males are predominantly blackish, albeit becoming steadily paler over the underparts, and females…