A fire-headed feathered ember conspicuously flying through a desert landscape!
Meet the Vermillion Flycatcher
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The vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus obscurus), is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family of birds. Measuring 5.1 – 5.5 in length from tip to tail this bird weighs in at 0.39 to 0.49 ounces. Males are bright red on their underparts and cap with contrasting dark brown above plumage.
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Compared to the male, the female looks drab, having a peach-colored belly with dark gray upper parts.
These birds can be found in many parts of North America down through into Latin America. Especially in Southwestern USA and Argentina.
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Vermillion Flycatchers like to live alongside the sides of streams in arid country, savanna, and ranches.
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It can also be found in dry grassland or desert with scattered trees, but it is more frequently found near water.
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After a peculiar flying singing display, during the breeding season, the female builds a nest in a horizontal fork of a tree around 6 to 20 feet above the ground. The nest is a compact cup constructed from twigs, grass, and weeds, bound together with spider webs, and decorated with lichen. She goes on to incubate her 2 – 4 eggs, though the male helps out from time to time. After 14 – 15 days they hatch and are fed by both sexes becoming fledged in 14 – 16 days.
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This species has an extremely large range and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion.
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Watch and listen to this bird right here in the video below: