Birds of the World

    PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura)  
Genus: Pyrocephalus (3 species)


Darwin's Flycatcher
Darwin's Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus nanus) Male Vulnerable
Range: SA: Galápagos (except San Cristobal)
Volcan Sierra Negra, Galapagos, Ecuador, Isla Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Nik Borrow     Copyright and usage info

Darwin's Flycatcher
Darwin's Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus nanus) Female Vulnerable
Range: SA: Galápagos (except San Cristobal)
Volcan Sierra Negra, Isla Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador  
   
Photograph by Nik Borrow     Copyright and usage info

A smaller version of the widespread Vermilion Flycatcher.

Vermilion Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus saturatus) Male
Range: NA, MA, SA: sw USA to n Chile
Puerto Boyacá, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Vermilion Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus obscurus) Male
Range: NA, MA, SA: sw USA to n Chile
Lima, Peru
  50% of the obscurus subspecies, only found around Lima, Peru, are brown (HBW). The other 50% have normal colors, but maybe with a touch of yellow.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Vermilion Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus) Female
Range: NA, MA, SA: sw USA to n Chile
Medellin, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Female starting a nest.

Scarlet Flycatcher
Scarlet Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) Male
Range: SA: se Bolivia, Paraguay, se Brazil to Argentina and Uruguay
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.


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