- Muscisaxicola frontalis
Identification
18 cm (7 in)
- Black forehead and central crown
- White lores
- Ash grey upper parts
- Blackish back
- Black upper tail-coverts
- Dirty white under parts
- White under tail coverts
- Black wings
- Black tail, whitish outer webs of external rectrices
- Bill: blackish, long and little bent tipped
Distribution
South America: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
High-altitude dry alpine tundra, observed at heights around 3200 m.
Behaviour
Diet
Their main diet consists of insects and they possibly also eat some cactus fruits too.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2016)
- Wikipedia
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-fronted Ground Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-fronted_Ground_Tyrant
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
