Puerto Rican Flycatchers: Puerto Rico Constitution and Five-One Icons

Summary: Puerto Rican flycatchers aid ecosystem balance as family-oriented, pest-catching Puerto Rico Constitution month July 2019 and Puerto Rico Five-One icons.

Puerto Rican flycatcher (Myiarchus antillarum); Municipio de Río Grande (Río Grande municipality), northeastern Puerto Rico; Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, 07:04: Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Puerto Rican flycatchers allow environment- and family-friendly first impressions for Commonwealth tourists as Puerto Rico Constitution month July 2019 and Puerto Rico Five-One statehood icons, one-brood annual parents and organic pest-controlling managers.

Puerto Rican flycatchers, the Commonwealth's only Tyrannidae (from Greek τύραννος, "absolute ruler" and -ειδής, "-like") member, belong to the largest bird family in the New World. Darren P. Soto, United States Democratic Representative from Florida's 9th district, conveyed the proposed Puerto Rico Admissions Act March 28, 2019, to the current, 116th Congress. The Puerto Rico Five-One statehood bill, if deemed favorably by the 116th Congress and the 45th president, demands condition-free admission within 90 days of presidential approval.

Puerto Rican flycatchers, if effective Puerto Rico Five-One emblems by Puerto Rico Constitution Day, July 25, 2019, enrich United States wildlife as hard-working Puerto Rico-exclusive pest-controllers.

The Passeriformes (from Latin passer, "sparrow" and -formis, "shaped") order member fits the months from February through July into five-plus-year life cycles for annual breeding seasons.

Physically and sexually mature female woodpeckers gestate one three- to six-egg seasonal brood for nests they get together in natural cavities, nest boxes and woodpecker holes. They hone woven nests within pre-existing cavities and holes at two- to 70-foot (0.61- to 21.34-meter) heights above tree bases within their 5,752.92-square-mile (14,900-square-kilometer) territorial range. Cup-like nests within built or natural holes involve feather-, grass-, hair- and rootlet-lined, bark-, feather-, fur-, grass-, hair-, leaf-, needle-, rootlet-, stalk-, stem- and twig-integrated installations.

Female Puerto Rico Constitution and Puerto Rico Five-One statehood icons juggle 0.82- to 0.84-inch- (20.79- to 21.25-millimeter-) long, 0.62- to 0.63-inch- (15.82- to 16.04-millimeter-) broad eggs.

Puerto Rican flycatcher mothers-to-be keep brown-blotched, speckled, spotted and streaked, semi-glossy, smooth creamy white to yellow eggs, with gray-violet crowns, incubated for 13 to 15 days.

Puerto Rican flycatchers look blind, cream- to yellow-gaped, gray-legged, gray-pink-skinned, helpless, naked and orange-mouthed as hatchlings; downy-gray within days; and feathered as 15- to 16-day-old fledglings. Immature females and males manifest black bills, feet and legs; olive-brown crowns; gray cheeks, throats and underparts; white-yellow bellies and undertail coverts; and red-tipped wing coverts. Myiarchus antillarum (from Greek μυια, "fly" and ἀρχός, "ruler" and Latin antillārum, "Antillean"), noted by Henry Bryant (May 12, 1820-Feb. 2, 1867), nets insect-catching, wide bills.

Physically and sexually mature female and male Puerto Rico Constitution anniversary month and Puerto Rico Five-One icons observe brown irises and black bills, feet and legs.

Adults possess olive-brown crests; gray cheeks, chins, throats and underparts; brown backs and tails; buff- or no-barred wings; and white-yellow bellies and undertail and underwing coverts.

Mature Puerto Rican flycatchers queue up respectively female lower-ranging and male upper-ranging 0.78- to 0.88-ounce (22- to 25-gram), 6.3- to 9-inch (16- to 23-centimeter) beak-tail lengths. Berry-consuming, seed-eating Puerto Rican flycatchers realize acrobatic, direct, hovering, rapid sallies after bees, caterpillars, dragonflies, flies, frogs, lizards, snails, wasps and weevils and whistled juí songs. Fragmented, reduced forested, mangrove, scrub and wooded habitats and predatory shiny cowbirds in citrus groves and coffee plantations stress them at sea-level through 3,116.8-foot (950-meter) altitudes.

Puerto Rican flycatchers, as copetones puertorriqueños and Puerto Rico Constitution and Puerto Rico Five-One icons, tidy wooded habitats for, and train nestlings during, revenue-yearly tourist seasons.

Puerto Rican flycatcher (Myiarchus antillarum) by Gloria Archilla Photography; Pabellón Area Recreativa Tortuguero, Municipio Autónomo de Vega Baja (Vega Baja municipality), coastal north central Puerto Rico; June 1, 2019: SOPI Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña @sociedadornitologicapuertorriquena, via Facebook June 3, 2019

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Puerto Rican flycatcher (Myiarchus antillarum); Municipio de Río Grande (Río Grande municipality), coastal northeastern Puerto Rico; Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, 07:04: Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puerto_Rican_Flycatcher_(5399242634).jpg

Puerto Rican flycatcher (Myiarchus antillarum) by Gloria Archilla Photography; Pabellón Area Recreativa Tortuguero, Municipio Autónomo de Vega Baja (Vega Baja municipality), coastal north central Puerto Rico; June 1, 2019: SOPI Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña @sociedadornitologicapuertorriquena, via Facebook June 3, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/sociedadornitologicapuertorriquena/posts/2332320313678701

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