Boat-billed Flycatcher
Megarynchus pitangua - Tyran pitangua
Systematics
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Order:
Passeriformes
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Family:
Tyrannidés
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Genus:
Megarynchus
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Species:
pitangua
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 24 cm
- Wingspan: -
- Weight: 62 à 70 g
Geographic range
Description identification
Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.
Subspecific information 6 subspecies
- Megarynchus pitangua pitangua (tropical n and c SA to n Argentina, Trinidad)
- Megarynchus pitangua tardiusculus (nw Mexico)
- Megarynchus pitangua caniceps (w Mexico)
- Megarynchus pitangua mexicanus (e Mexico to nw Colombia)
- Megarynchus pitangua deserticola (c Guatemala)
- Megarynchus pitangua chrysogaster (e Ecuador and nw Peru)
Foreign names
- Tyran pitangua,
- Bienteveo pitanguá,
- nei-nei,
- Starkschnabel-Maskentyrann,
- csónakcsőrű bentévi,
- Bootsnaveltiran,
- Pigliamosche becco a barca,
- båtnäbbstyrann,
- Båtnebbtyrann,
- postriežkar pitangua,
- tyran velkozobý,
- Bådnæbstyran,
- isonokkaväijy,
- tirà reial bec de bota,
- bentewi wielkodzioby,
- Тиранн-лодкоклюв,
- オオハシタイランチョウ,
- 船嘴霸鹟,
- 船嘴霸鶲,
Habitat
Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland ; Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Moist ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Plantations, Rural Gardens, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Sources of information
- Vol. 10 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliott-David Christie
- ARKive, Christopher Parsons
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- Birds of Venezuela, Steven L. Hilty
- Birds of Mexico Central America, Ber Van Perlo
- HBW Alive,
- Whatbird,
- IOC World Bird List (v12.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2022.
Other sources of interest
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