Amazing Bird that (sometimes) Wears a Crown
Photo Above: (Royal Flycatcher Bird – Colored Pencil; Mixed Media Art)
The royal flycatchers are a genus, Onychorhynchus, of passerine birds in the family Tityridae. Other taxonomic authorities including the AOU, Clements, and the IUCN, include it in Tyrannidae. Depending on authority, it includes a single widespread, or four more localized species. The specific epithet of the type species, coronatus, and the common name of all the species in this genus, royal flycatcher, refer to the striking, colourful crest, which is seen displayed very rarely, except after mating, while preening, in courtship as well as being handled.
The genus contains four species: The Amazonian royal flycatcher which lives in the Amazon basin in northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern and western Brazil. The Northern royal flycatcher which lives in Mexico, south through most of Central America, to northwestern Colombia and far western Venezuela. The Pacific royal flycatcher which lives in Western Ecuador and far northwestern Peru and the Atlantic Royal Flycatcher which lives in the Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil.
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