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Scarlet Flycatcher

Pyrocephalus rubinus · Family Tyrannidae

Pyrocephalus rubinus

Family Tyrannidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,177,761
Countries and territories with records
30
Scarlet Flycatcher
Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · Scarlet Flycatcher, female, Ayolas, Paraguay (1).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Pablo H Capovilla · Pyrocephalus_rubinus_audio_(162596086).wav · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pablo H Capovilla · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 1,177,761 occurrence records from 30 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (56.1%), Mexico (17.6%), Colombia (7.5%), Peru (4.3%) and Argentina (3.7%); together they account for 89.1% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.059% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Pyrocephalus rubinus combines the genus name Pyrocephalus with the species epithet rubinus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Pyrocephalus: Pyrocephalus nanus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 13th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 8.5 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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