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Pyrocephalus nanus (Darwin's flycatcher) Nederlands: Afbeelding van Darwins tiran (Pyrocephalus nanus)
English: origninal illustration of Darwin's flycatcher (Pyrocephalus nanus)
Date 1839
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40300066#page/83/mode/1up
Author Gould, J., 1839. The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832-1836. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. Part 3 Birds. Smith, Elder & Co. London. 1841. 156 pp., 50 tt
Author John Gould (1804–1881)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyrocephalus_nanus.jpg
Darwin's flycatcher or little vermilion flycatcher (Pyrocephalus nanus) is a species of flycatcher, closely related to the vermilion flycatcher. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. The same threats that led to the San Cristóbal flycatcher's extinction, including invasive species such as rats, threaten the Darwin's flycatcher today. Populations exist on the islands of Santa Cruz, Fernandina, Rabida and Isabela. It lives in humid forests and shrubland and has an average lifespan of five years. A 2016 study on the vermilion flycatcher elevated several of the subspecies to the rank of species, including Darwin's flycatcher, and the now extinct San Cristόbal flycatcher.
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Pyrocephalus
Species: Pyrocephalus nanus (Gould, 1839)
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