Birds of Ecuador

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Genus: Pyrocephalus (3 species, 3 worldwide)


Darwin's Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus nanus) Male Vulnerable ENDEMIC Volcan Sierra Negra, Galapagos, Ecuador, Isla Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador
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Darwin's Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus nanus) Female Vulnerable ENDEMIC Volcan Sierra Negra, Isla Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador
Photograph by Nik Borrow Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

A smaller version of the widespread Vermilion Flycatcher.


Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus saturatus) Male Puerto Boyacá, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus) Female Medellin, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Compare to austral migrant Scarlet Flycatcher.
Female starting a nest.


Scarlet Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) Male Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Austral migrant to north and west Amazon. Virtually identical to mostly non-migratory Vermilion Flycatcher.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba