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Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

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AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago
Tropical Kingbird
Tyrannus melancholicus Tropical Kingbird, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology


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Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 10 years ago

thank you all for your help and comments

Jellis
Jellis 10 years ago

The tail gives it mostly away.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/kingb...

Jellis
Jellis 10 years ago

We have Tropical Kingbirds in our area. They are so bigger then our Western.

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Fyn Kynd
Fyn Kynd 10 years ago

I love how in the video he tracks a insect as it goes by. Nice spotting!

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Maria dB
Maria dB 10 years ago

Nice portrait of this bird!

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman 10 years ago

I like the video, Ismael, looks like a young, Tropical Kingbird
Tyrannus melancholicus.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/258...

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AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

It's extremely hard to tell this guy apart from the Couch's Kingbird, but the Couch's has a much smaller range that very rarely includes Costa Rica, so it made it easier to know which one it was :)

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Ismael Chaves
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Ismael Chaves

Heredia, Costa Rica

Spotted on Mar 27, 2014
Submitted on Mar 27, 2014

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