Vermilion Flycatcher Fine Art Greeting Card | "The Showstopper" | Macro Songbird Wildlife Photography Card 5x7

Every bird in the desert knows to step aside when this one arrives.

This absolutely breathtaking fine art greeting card features a male Vermilion Flycatcher in full magnificent plumage — his blazing scarlet crest raised to full dramatic height, his rich burnt orange and amber breast puffed with casual, unhurried confidence, his slate-grey and charcoal wings and tail providing the perfect dark foil that makes every warm tone positively ignite. Perched on a bare winter branch against a vivid cerulean blue sky softly filtered through bare desert branches, he surveys his world with the quiet, absolute authority of a bird that has never once doubted its own magnificence.

And rightly so.

The Vermilion Flycatcher is arguably the most spectacularly colored bird in the American Southwest — a tiny, improbable jewel of the Sonoran Desert that stops birders, hikers, and casual walkers dead in their tracks the first time they encounter one. That crest. That color. That extraordinary combination of crimson, orange, and grey that looks less like something that evolved in a desert and more like something an artist spent considerable time designing.

Nature designed it. It took a few million years. The result was worth every one of them.

This image captures him in the cool morning light of an Arizona winter — feathers slightly ruffled against the chill, crest at full attention, the whole magnificent creature rendered in extraordinary macro detail that rewards every second of looking.

Perfect for birdwatchers, Arizona wildlife enthusiasts, Sonoran Desert lovers, nature photographers, and anyone who has ever spotted a Vermilion Flycatcher along an Arizona canal trail and immediately stopped everything to stare.

— 5×7 inches, printed on premium matte card stock 

— Perfect for birthdays, thinking-of-you, friendship, and anyone who appreciates extraordinary beauty in a small and unexpected package 

— Includes a white envelope

— Packaged in a clear protective sleeve