Photo: Peter Llewellyn / Alamy
VERMILLION FLYCATCHER
(Pyrocephalus obscurus)
(Pyrocephalus obscurus)
A male Vermillion Flycatcher (above) is seen perched on a branch of a tree in Jocotepex, Jalisco, Mexico. This flycatcher occasionally reaches northward from southern Texas into eastern North America, where it creates quite a stir among local birders. This is also the case with Scissor-tailed (Tyrannus forticatus) and Fork-tailed Flycatchers (Tyrannus savana) that sometimes stray northward from Mexico, Texas, Florida and the Atlantic coast. The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, which I saw (one time only and a 'lifer') in southern Ontario, many years ago, has been known to nest rarely in the east in Virginia and North Carolina.
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER
Photo: Terry Sohl
FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER
Photo: Scott Buckel
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BarrytheBirder
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