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Long-Tailed Silky Flycatcher A beautiful bird - fairly subtle colors unlike amyn other tropical birds, but looks like it was put together by an artist. We saw these at the Dantica Cloud Forest Lodge in Cost Rica. Costa Rica,Dantica,Geotagged,Long-tailed silky-flycatcher,Ptiliogonys caudatus,Spring Click/tap to enlarge

Long-Tailed Silky Flycatcher

A beautiful bird - fairly subtle colors unlike amyn other tropical birds, but looks like it was put together by an artist. We saw these at the Dantica Cloud Forest Lodge in Cost Rica.

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    Ferdy Christant
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    The artist being female sexual selection :) Posted 8 years ago
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      Barry
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      True enough in this case - but in the case of the Proboscis Monkey, one wonders what the females were thinking! Posted 8 years ago

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The Long-tailed silky-flycatcher

The long-tailed silky-flycatcher is a passerine bird which occurs only in the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama, usually from 1,850 m altitude to the timberline. It is a thrush-sized species weighing about 37 g. The silky-flycatchers are related to waxwings, and like that group have soft silky plumage.

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Uploaded Apr 11, 2017. Captured Apr 25, 2013 15:23 in Calle San Gerardo, Provincia de Cartago, Dota, Costa Rica.
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  • Canon PowerShot SX30 IS
  • f/5.8
  • 1/202s
  • ISO320
  • 150.5mm