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Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Photo by Ismael Chaves
Published on Project Noah
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Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Comments (7)

The tail gives it mostly away. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/kingbirdsX.htm
We have Tropical Kingbirds in our area. They are so bigger then our Western.
I love how in the video he tracks a insect as it goes by. Nice spotting!
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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