Medium-sized flycatcher with a short tail. Adult males are brilliant red and black.
Compact flycatcher. Females are brownish above with a white breast and reddish belly and undertail coverts.
Found in open habitats including scrub, deserts, and weedy fields or edges, where it sits on low, exposed perches and scans for insects.
Immature females are duller than adults with a peachy belly and a streaky breast.
Immature males have variable patches of red feathers on the head and breast.
Compact flycatcher. Juveniles are brown above with a heavily streaked belly and pale peach undertail coverts. Individuals in northern Chile are browner than birds in North America.
Medium-sized flycatcher with a shorter tail. Adult males are brilliant red and black.
Compact flycatcher. Females are brownish above with a white breast and reddish belly and undertail coverts.
Back and breast color varies slightly throughout their range from brownish black to black and from red to red-orange.
A fairly small, stocky flycatcher with an upright posture. Fairly flat headed and barrel chested, with a slender tail and a broad, straight bill.
Larger than a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, smaller than an Ash-throated Flycatcher.
between sparrow and robinThere are no regional differences among Vermilion Flycatchers in the United States, but some populations in South America are entirely ashy gray-brown.
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