Aves Urbanas de los Parque Jardines y alrededores de la ciudad de Loja, 2009.Por Pablo Andrade 44 especies. Jan Hinloopen.

The Black Phoebe, Sayornis nigricans.- Fairly common, widespread, and conspicuous along streams and rivers in fotthills, subtropics, and lower temperate zone on both slopes, also locally in central and interandean valleys. Favors semiopen areas, but also occurs in mainly forested regions, the prerequisite being the proximity of running water. In teh city of Loja also is a common species found along the Zamora and Malacatus river.

Description.

The Black Phoebe is Unmistakable. Sooty black with middle of lower belly white. Wings with two indistinct white wing-bars, wing-coverts and flight feathers narrowly edged white; outer web of outer pair of tail feathers white. rnrn

Habits

Usually in pairs, ofteh confiding and frequent around buildings and bridges (whose ledges provide ideal nesting sites). Perches in the open, generally not too high above ground, sometimes on rocks out in water; tail is periodically jerked upward. Feeds by salling into air afterflying insects.

Information taken from the book Birds Of Ecuador of Robert Ridgely and Paul Greenfield