If you like birds, their colorful look, beautiful singing, and acting, this one will conquer your heart the first second you see it. You won’t believe how such a tiny bird, which measures only 3 – 4.5 inches, can have so many colors on its body.
Many-Colored Rush Tyrant (Tachuris Rubrigastra) is a small passerine bird from the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae and the only member of the genus Tachuris. It is also among the smallest birds of its species.
This tyrant flycatcher inhabits freshwater, reed beds, and marshlands with thick vegetation around rivers and lakes. It is most widespread from southeast Brazil to southern Argentina and central Chile.
This little bird has magnificent feathers, it counts seven different colors on its tiny body, creating a beautiful rainbow of green, yellow, white, red, black, and dark blue-gray hues. That’s why this birdie looks so adorable, and this also got her Spanish nickname, “siete colores” (seven colors).
As well as the other flycatchers, the Many-Colored Rush Tyrant is feeding on small invertebrates. When it searches for food in its environment, this bird jumps on floating vegetation, scours the wetlands, climbs the stems, and even makes short flights in the air to catch the flying insect.
Despite the small structure of the body, it’s easy to spot this bird in nature because of its characteristic plumage patterns. If you want to observe them, just try to find plants like cattails, rushes, or scripus in wetlands, they love them.
Just looking at different hues of bright and vibrant colors on their feathers, evokes joy and happiness in you. And if you observe the bird carefully, you can hear it singing, and if you are lucky, you can see how this birdie courtships to its potential pair mate, by posturing and displaying.
The Many-Colored Rush Tyrant.
Look at this gorgeous plumage.
Like most other bird species, cubs and females are less colored than males.
It lives around freshwater, reedbeds and brackish marsh, at edges of the lakes and rivers, among plant steams such as cattails, rushes, or scripus.
Tiny birdie measures only 3 – 4.5 inches (10-11.5cm) in length.
The female uses wet vegetation to build a cone-shaped nest fastened to one side of a reed stem.
As the nest dries it becomes solid and stable despite swaying on plant steam during the wind. Nest is usually well hidden among plants and built above the water due to protection from predators.
Female brooding two to three eggs in the well-prepared nest. Although female does most of the job when it comes to hatching, but feeding the newborns is a 2 birds job.
There are three more species recognized besides the Tachuris Rubrigastra.
They are found in coastal and southeast Peru, west Bolivia, northwest Argentina, and northern Chile.
Even though the many-colored rush tyrant belongs to the species of birds that are widespread, it does face the same issues as many other birds that live around marshlands too – habitat loss and water pollution.
Take a look at the video, and enjoy its beautiful singing.
If by any chance you stumble upon this birdie with dazzling feathers, it will take your breath away for sure. Look how boldly and gallantly it looks.
Somehow Many-Colored Rush Tyrant manages to squeeze this amazing pattern on a tiny body, the body that is literally smaller than a human hand. The Many colored rush tyrant is among the smallest and the cutest birdies.
If you come across this birdie, don’t miss the opportunity to take some incredible photos. We will be glad to see them, share your photos with us in the comment section.
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