17 cm. Slender with long wings and tail. White eye ring. Reddish-brown above with a cinnamon rufous rump and upper part of tail. Wings black, the feathers with rusty edges, the basal part of the tertiaries cinnamon rufous forming a patch. Throat buff whitish with darker vermiculation. Below rufous.
Not very vocal, the call is "wee-dirrrrrr".
Perches on top of cliffs, on gables of houses, performs almost exclusively aerial hawks ^74 .
Nest is an open cup ^106
Regularly encountered near cliffs and road cuts, rocky canyons and rocky outcroppings.
Throughout, below 2000 meters. Rio de Janeiro State reported from<8E>Cantagalo, Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis, Taipu, Ilha Grande, Marambaia, Itatiaia , S<C4>o Paulo State reported from<8E>S<C4>o Sebasti<C4>o, Iguape<8E>and further inland, ;^40= .
The form occuring in Southeast Brazil bellicosa is morphologically distinct from the other subspecies and might be a separate species.
8175 Calls. Cornell Cat 30185. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>12<10>82. With /Saltator similis . Recording by T. A. Parker, III.:
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Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved
Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic
Structured account sections
Description
17 cm. Slender with long wings and tail. White eye ring. Reddish-brown above with a cinnamon rufous rump and upper part of tail. Wings black, the feathers with rusty edges, the basal part of the tertiaries cinnamon rufous forming a patch. Throat buff whitish with darker vermiculation. Below rufous.
Voice
Not very vocal, the call is "wee-dirrrrrr".
Behavior
Perches on top of cliffs, on gables of houses, performs almost exclusively aerial hawks ^74 .
Breeding
Nest is an open cup ^106
Habitat and status
Regularly encountered near cliffs and road cuts, rocky canyons and rocky outcroppings.
Distribution
Throughout, below 2000 meters. Rio de Janeiro State reported from<8E>Cantagalo, Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis, Taipu, Ilha Grande, Marambaia, Itatiaia , S<C4>o Paulo State reported from<8E>S<C4>o Sebasti<C4>o, Iguape<8E>and further inland, ;^40= .
Taxonomy notes
The form occuring in Southeast Brazil bellicosa is morphologically distinct from the other subspecies and might be a separate species.
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative
Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical
Release history
This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.
Disc 3in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011)in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
Historical taxonomy
WORLD
hirundinea ferruginea
Cliff Flycatcher
Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae
Fluvicoline Flycatchers
CLEMENTS
hirundinea ferruginea
Cliff Flycatcher
Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae
Fluvicoline Flycatchers
AOU_HM
hirundinea ferruginea
Cliff Flycatcher
Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae
Fluvicoline Flycatchers
Recordings
8175.wav
8175 Calls. Cornell Cat 30185. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>12<10>82. With /Saltator similis . Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
