Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

WoodlandCup nestTiny · 14 g

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus), photo 4 — Photo: Kristen Francis · CC0

Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus), photo 5 — Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

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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When to see the Vermilion Flycatcher

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Vermilion Flycatcher

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 19 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

United States Mexico Colombia Peru Argentina Belize Ecuador Brazil Uruguay Venezuela Chile Bolivia Guatemala Paraguay Guyana Honduras Nicaragua Panama El Salvador

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Cuba, Curaçao.

About the Vermilion Flycatcher

The scarlet flycatcher or austral vermilion flycatcher is a passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

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Easily confused with

Brujo FlycatcherPyrocephalus nanusThe brujo flycatcher is about 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 11 to 14 g (0.39 to 0.49 oz).

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