#tyrant flycatcher

[herpsandbirds]

White Monjita (Xolmis irupero), family Tyrannidae, Islas del Ibicuy, Entre Rios, Argentina

photograph by Lip Kee Yap 

[birdstudies]

November 1, 2024 - Stub-tailed Spadebill (Platyrinchus cancrominus) Found from southeastern Mexico to northwestern Panama, these tyrant flycatchers live in forests, sometimes near water. Foraging alone or in pairs, they feed on insects, spiders, and possibly some fruit and occasionally follow army ant swarms. They build cone-shaped cup nests from fine grasses, bark strips, leaves, and fungal fibers in shrubs. Females lay clutches of two eggs.

[jadafitch]

Tyrant Flycatcher Sketches.

[sebring5]

_DSF5151 by Henry

[wingedjewels]

Red as Red Can Be by Todd Wynia Via Flickr: It wasn't too hard to spot this male vermilion flycatcher at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Rather eye-poppingly red in my opinion. I almost feel like I should squint looking at this photo. Don't you just love his Zorro maask?

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Of diversified habits innumerable instances could be given: I have often watched a tyrant flycatcher (Saurophagus sulphuratus) in South America, hovering over one spot and then proceeding to another, like a kestrel, and at other times standing stationary on the margin of water, and then dashing like a kingfisher at fish.

"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" - Charles Darwin

[spinus-pinus]

Say's Phoebe Sayornis saya

11/27/2022 San Jacinto Wildlife Area, California

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Torrent Tyrannulet

Photo: Doug Greenberg

"Unique small gray flycatcher found exclusively along fast-moving rivers and streams. Often perches on rocks in the middle of a waterway, but also along the edge. Plumage is also unlike any other flycatcher; pale gray overall with diffuse black cap and black wings and tail. Sexes similar. Pumps tail."

- eBird

[snailkites]

Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus)

Photos: Fernando Burgalin Sequeria / Andres Paniagua

Weird little flycatcher with a shaggy crown and a staring eye. The only member of its genus to range north into Central America in addition to South America.

[podartists]

Myiarchus crinitus | Megaceryle alcyon | Chordeiles minor | Coccyzus americanus | Contopus virens | Empidonax virescens | Antrostomus vociferus

Plate XXXIII | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[herpsandbirds]

White Monjita (Xolmis irupero), family Tyrannidae, found in south-central South America

photograph by rafaelslopess

[birdstudies]

May 31, 2024 - Jelski's Chat-Tyrant (Silvicultrix jelskii) Found in the Andes in western Peru and southern Ecuador, these tyrant flycatchers live at the edges of mountain forests, often near streams. Usually foraging alone and occasionally joining mixed-species flocks, they eat insects, capturing prey in short flights from low perches or sometimes from the ground. Nothing is known about their breeding behavior.

[zetasxphotos]

Just some random bird shots I took a few weeks back

Story: I decided to take a small drive to a bird preserve just outside the town I live in. The trail i was on went in a loop back to the parking lot, and just as I was heading back to my car, I saw this bird consistently flying back and forth to this sign. I decided to spend some time there and practice my shutter speed in order to catch the bird flying in motion. How did I do?

[sebring5]

_DSF5098 by Henry Via Flickr: Tyrant flycatcher

[wingedjewels]

Red Zorro! by Todd Wynia Via Flickr: This is a male vermilion flycatcher youngster. As he matures his belly and crown will be more solidly red. I just love the Zorro mask these guys wear. I think I can safely say that this is my favorite tyrant flycatcher of North America, so brilliantly colored. Seen at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona.

[threebraincellsinatrenchcoat]

Eastern wood pewee (contopus virens)

It may be in the family tyrannidae, but it's very cute.