Tiny Bird Called The Many-Colored Rush Tyrant Will Make You Fall In Love With Its Vibrant, Colorful Feathers

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.