Bird Guide

Vermilion Flycatcher vs Willow Flycatcher

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)

Vermilion Flycatcher

Pyrocephalus rubinus

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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".

ID text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Sinaloa Silvestre · CC0
Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii)

Willow Flycatcher

Empidonax traillii

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Adults have brown-olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have an indistinct white eye ring, white wing bars and a small bill. The breast is washed with olive-gray. The upper part of the bill is gray; the lower part is orangish.

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Recording: Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: photo credit Jim Rorabaugh/USFWS · Public domain

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