Vermilion Flycatcher
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This Vermilion Flycatcher carving was hand-crafted from solid Basswood. The adult male Vermilion Flycatcher is strikingly red and brown. The adult female is grayish-brown above with a blackish tail, white throat and breast with dusky streaking. The belly and under-tail coverts are peach colored. Other color features include whitish eyebrows and forehead. Juveniles resemble the adult female but is spotted rather than streaked below and has a white belly, often tinged with yellow. The song is a soft, tinkling pit-a-see pit-a-see, which it will also sing while perched. The typical call is a sharp, thin pseep. Frequently pumps and spreads its tail down. Found along streamsides and near small wooded ponds.
Reference
National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds of North America, Fifth Edition, Page 302.
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