Northern royal flycatcher
| Northern royal flycatcher | |
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| A male displaying the crest. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Onychorhynchus |
| Species: | O. coronatus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Onychorhynchus coronatus mexicanus (Sclater, 1857) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Onychorhynchus mexicanus | |
The northern royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus mexicanus) is a bird in the Tyrannidae family. It is often considered a subspecies of O. coronatus.
It is found in Mexico, south through most of Central America, to north-western Colombia and far western Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Description
The northern royal flycatcher is 16.5–18 cm (6½-7") long, brown above small buffy spots on its wing-coverts; the rump and tail are tawny-ochraceous in colour. The bill is long and broad.
The northern royal flycatcher has an erectile fan-shaped crest, coloured red in the male and yellow-orange in the female. The display with the crest fully raised is seen extremely rarely, except during banding sessions.
The northern royal flycatcher is usually inconspicuous and quiet, but sometimes gives a repeated sharp clear pree-o or key-up, sounding rather like a Manacus manakin or a jacamar.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2004). Onychorhynchus coronatus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- Robert S. Ridgely and John A. Gwynne, Jr., Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, Princeton University Press, 1999
- BirdLife International 2004. Onychorhynchus mexicanus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.