Rufous Mourner Rhytipterna holerythra
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Catalan | tirà ploraner rogenc |
Dutch | Rosse Treurtiran |
English | Rufous Mourner |
English (United States) | Rufous Mourner |
French | Tyran plaintif |
French (France) | Tyran plaintif |
German | Zimtschmucktyrann |
Japanese | ナゲキタイランチョウ |
Norwegian | brunsørgetyrann |
Polish | pokutnik rdzawy |
Russian | Рыжия тиранн-плакса |
Serbian | Riđa žalobna muharka |
Slovak | postriežkar hrdzavý |
Spanish | Plañidera Rojiza |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | Plañidera Rojiza |
Spanish (Ecuador) | Copetón Plañidero Rufo |
Spanish (Honduras) | Llorona Rojiza |
Spanish (Mexico) | Mosquero Canelo |
Spanish (Panama) | Plañidera Rufa |
Spanish (Spain) | Plañidera rojiza |
Swedish | rödbrun sorgtyrann |
Turkish | Kızıl Ağıtçı Tiran |
Ukrainian | Планідера руда |
Introduction
Rufous Mourner is a medium-sized flycatcher that occurs in humid lowland forests from southern Mexico south to northwestern South America in western Colombia and Ecuador. This flycatcher is overall reddish brown with somewhat paler underparts, and with a pale-based black bill. Rufous Mourner is strikingly similar to the sympatric Rufous Piha (Lipaugus unirufus), but is much smaller, with a smaller bill. The mourner is visually inconspicuous within the forest, but is often heard giving its plaintive wolf-whistle call. Although Rufous Mourner is widespread, its natural history is rather poorly known.