This flycatcher inhabits thorn forest and woodland on the Yucatan Peninsula. A Mexican field guide notes its dull wing markings and calls as identification features.
The guide describes Mexican Myiarchus flycatchers generally as grey-brown to olive above, with pale wing edges and a grey throat and chest. Yucatan Flycatcher has dull wingbars, reduced rufous in the tail and pale grey facial areas; a broad pale eye-ring is often visible.
The guide describes it as resident in thorn forest and woodland on the Yucatan Peninsula and gives its plaintive, slurred whistles as diagnostic calls.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.