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Tyrannidae

251 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Aves › Passeriformes › Tyrannidae

Xolmis pyrope (Kittlitz, 1830)

The fire-eyed diucon Xolmis pyrope is a South American bird with a distinctive bright red adult iris, found in open habitats.

Muscisaxicola fluviatilis P.L.Sclater & Salvin, 1866

Muscisaxicola fluviatilis, the little ground tyrant, is a small terrestrial South American bird that mostly lives on sparsely vegetated sandbars and river islands.

Pitangus lictor (Lichtenstein, 1823)

Pitangus lictor, the lesser kiskadee, is a small Neotropical bird found near water across northern and central South America.

Phylloscartes eximius (Temminck, 1822)

Phylloscartes eximius, the southern bristle tyrant, is a small Atlantic Forest bird found in parts of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Phylloscartes ophthalmicus (Taczanowski, 1874)

Phylloscartes ophthalmicus, the marble-faced bristle tyrant, is a small tyrant flycatcher with a disjunct Andean distribution in mossy montane cloudforest.

Ochthoeca diadema (Hartlaub, 1843)

Ochthoeca diadema, the yellow-bellied chat-tyrant, is a small South American bird with multiple subspecies that lives in Andean mountain forests.

Onychorhynchus coronatus (Statius Muller, 1776)

Onychorhynchus coronatus, the tropical royal flycatcher, is a small bird with five subspecies found across Neotropical humid lowland forests.

Myiobius barbatus (Gmelin, 1789)

Myiobius barbatus, the whiskered myiobius, is an insectivorous bird found in lowland Amazon rainforest of South America.

Myiobius atricaudus Lawrence, 1863

Myiobius atricaudus, the black-tailed myiobius, is a songbird with a patchy range across tropical Central and South America.

Myiobius barbatus sulphureipygius (P.L.Sclater, 1857)

Myiobius barbatus sulphureipygius is a South American understory rainforest bird that feeds mainly on flying insects.

Terenotriccus erythrurus (Cabanis, 1847)

Terenotriccus erythrurus, the ruddy-tailed flycatcher, is a small American songbird that feeds primarily on insects.

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Thraupidae 274 species Muscicapidae 193 species Furnariidae 141 species Fringillidae 135 species Passerellidae 96 species Corvidae 91 species Parulidae 88 species Turdidae 88 species

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