Tropical Royal Flycatcher
Onychorhynchus coronatus
Aves
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 8-12 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- South America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Rare
About
The Tropical Royal Flycatcher hides a secret weapon beneath its plain brown plumage: a spectacular fan-shaped crest of brilliant scarlet-and-blue feathers (gold in females) that it fans open during courtship and aggressive encounters. It haunts the humid understory of lowland forests from Mexico south to Bolivia and Brazil, sallying out to snatch insects on the wing.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Onychorhynchidae
- Genus
- Onychorhynchus
- Species
- Onychorhynchus coronatus