View source for Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant - BirdForum Opus

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:

The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users.

You can view and copy the source of this page.

[[Image:Black-billed_Shrike-Tyrant_by_zweiblumen_IMG_4031.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Subspecies ''maritimus''<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|zweiblumen|zweiblumen}}<br /> Torres del Paine NP, [[Chile]], November 2007]]
;[[:Category:Agriornis|Agriornis]] montanus
==Identification==
23–24 cm (9-9½ in)<br />
Bill black and thinner than most [[Dictionary_A-C#C|congeners]].
====Variations====
[[Image:Black-billed Shrike TyrantSJ.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Subspecies ''insolens''<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Stanley+Jones|Stanley Jones}}<br />Huánuco, [[Peru]], August 2017]]
In north undertail [[Topography#General Anatomy|coverts]] and tail sides white while in central and southern [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]], the nearest part of the tail sides are dark. Eye is pale in northern birds but may be dark in birds from southern [[Bolivia]] and south of there.
==Distribution==
[[South America]]: found in [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Chile]], [[Argentina]]

Vagrant to the [[Falkland Islands]].
==Taxonomy==
The scientific name has been spelled ''montana'' in the past.
====Subspecies====
[[Image:Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant-5830.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Subspecies ''maritimus''<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|Luis+R|Luis R}}<br />La Parva. Santiago Metropolitan Region, [[Chile]], 1 May 2019]]
There are 5 subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
*''A. m. solitarius'':
:*Andes of [[Colombia]] and [[Ecuador]]
*''A. m. insolens'':
:*Andes of [[Peru]]
*''A. m. intermedius'':
:*Andes of western [[Bolivia]] (La Paz and Oruro) to northern [[Chile]] (Tarapacá)
*''A. m. montanus'':
:*Andes of eastern and southern [[Bolivia]] and north-western [[Argentina]] (south to La Rioja)
*''A. m. maritimus'' (''A. m. leucura'' included herein):
:*Andes of [[Chile]] and southern [[Argentina]]
==Habitat==
High-altitude shrubland, high-altitude grassland with scattered trees, and pastureland; can be seen at heights around 3,500m
==Behaviour==
Likes to perch on wires, buildings in villages, and rocks, but rarely on bushes.
====Diet====
Their diet consists of large insects, frogs, lizards, small mammals, eggs, nestlings and seeds.
==References==
#{{Ref-Clements6thAug18}}#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Nov 2017)
#BF Member observations
#Ridgely and Tudor 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America - The Passerines. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71979-8
{{ref}}
==External Links==
Search the Gallery using the scientific name: 
{{GSearch|Agriornis+montanus}} 
Search the Gallery Using the common name:
{{GSearch|"Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant"}}
{{GS-checked}}
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Agriornis]]

Templates used on this page:

Return to Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant.

Retrieved from ‘https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-billed_Shrike-Tyrant’

View source for Black-billed Shrike-Tyrant - BirdForum Opus

Personal tools

Main Categories

Related Tools

Tools