Northern royal flycatcher

The northern royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus mexicanus) is a passerine bird in the family Tityridae. 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.

Northern royal flycatcher

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tityridae
Genus: Onychorhynchus
Species:
O. mexicanus
Binomial name
Onychorhynchus mexicanus
(Sclater, PL, 1857)

Description

The northern royal flycatcher is 16.5–18 cm (6.5–7.1 in) 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. It 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.

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gollark: I think you are reading too much into your response to some fairly cold temperature.
gollark: Conspiracy theory: Russia is deliberately creating climate change so that Siberia will be habitable so they can colonize it.
gollark: I *could* stand outside in my pyjamas for a while, but I would get cold and not like it.
gollark: Well, survive, yes.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Onychorhynchus mexicanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
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