Bird Guide

Social Flycatcher vs Vermilion Flycatcher

Social Flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis)

Social Flycatcher

Myiozetetes similis

Small28 gShrubland

The social flycatcher is 16 to 18.5 cm (6.3 to 7.3 in) long and weighs 24 to 27 g (0.85 to 0.95 oz). The sexes have the same plumage, though females average slightly smaller than males. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. s. similis have a dark gray to brownish gray head with a mostly hidden bright red to orangish red patch in the center of the crown. They have a wide white supercilium that begins on the forehead and extends far past the eye. Voice: What is thought to be the social flycatcher's dawn song is a "shrill note repeated several times, sometimes followed by longer and continuously repeated series, seeu, seeu, see-u-chú, sree, sree, sree si-si-chuhr, or shorter but still repeated chirrrr". It also makes "a shrill and piercing seeá, tcheiit or see-yh!

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Recording: Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Andy Wilson · CC0
Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)

Vermilion Flycatcher

Pyrocephalus rubinus

Tiny14 gWoodland

The scarlet flycatcher is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long. and weighs 12 to 15 g (0.42 to 0.53 oz).Adult males have an intense poppy red forehead and crown down to the eye. Their lores and ear coverts are dark grayish brown and form a "mask". Their nape, upperparts, and tail are blackish and their rump blackish brown. Their wings are blackish with paler edges on the coverts and tertials. The lower part of their face, their throat, and their underparts are a slightly lighter shade of poppy red than the crown, with sometimes an orangey tinge. Voice: The scarlet flycatcher's song is an "extr. high tic-tic-psiieh" whose last part may be upslurred, and its call is an "extr. high psi".

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Photo: Sinaloa Silvestre · CC0

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