Cock-tailed Tyrant - BirdForum Opus

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Emas National Park, Brazil

Alectrurus tricolor

Identification

Female
Photo © by Francisco Paludo
Sacramento, MG, Brasil, July, 2018

12cm (4¾ in)
Male

• Black upperparts
• Grey rump
• White face and underparts
• White between wing tops
• Black patch on sides of breast
• Black tail with elongated tail feathers forming a crescent
  

Female - similar

• Brown
• Normal-shaped, short tail

Distribution

South America: found locally in eastern Bolivia, north-eastern Argentina, north-eastern Paraguay and southern Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species¹.

Habitat

Lowland dry grassland and seasonally wet or flooded grassland with tall vegetation.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of insects, particularly arthropods.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. ARKive
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Sept 2018)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Cock-tailed Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Cock-tailed_Tyrant

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