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Vermilion Flycatcher. (80)
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Vermilion Flycatcher is one of the most spectacular flycatchers of America, as in colours or in courtship displays.
Adult male is mainly red and dark brown. It has bright red crown and underparts. A blackish mask includes lores, eyes, ear-coverts and nape. Back, wings and tail are blackish-brown.
Adult female has greyish brown crown, ear-coverts and upperparts with wings and tail. Tail is darker. We can see a whitish stripe including forehead and indistinct eyebrow. Flight feathers and wing coverts are whitish edged. She has whitish underparts finely streaked with grey, on chest, sides and flanks. Belly and vent are pale red to salmon.
Both adults have same kind of plumage all year round.
Immature male has duller plumage than adult male. It resembles female but with brighter underparts, salmon-pink to orange-red.
Immature female is similar to adult female, except on belly and vent which are yellowish.
Juvenile is rather brown on upperparts. Underparts are white, more spotted than streaked with brown on breast, and yellowish tinge on belly.
They reach their sexual maturity at about two years.
Thin, pointed bill is blackish. Eyes are dark brown. Legs and feet are blackish.
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