Birds of Bolivia

    PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura)  
Genus: Knipolegus (6 species, 12 worldwide)


White-winged Black Tyrant
White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Male
Machu Picchu, Peru  
   
Photograph by Sascha Wenninger     Copyright and usage info

White-winged Black Tyrant
White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Female
Paucartambo, Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Front view.

Plumbeous Tyrant
Plumbeous Tyrant (Knipolegus cabanisi) Male
Parque Provincial, Potrero de Yala, Jujuy province, Argentina
  Split from the Andean Tyrant
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.


Blue-billed Black Tyrant
Blue-billed Black Tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) Male
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Cláudio D. Timm     Copyright and usage info

Blue-billed Black Tyrant
Blue-billed Black Tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) Female
Itatiaia National Park, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Carlos Henrique Luz Nunes de Almeida     Copyright and usage info


Hudson's Black Tyrant
Hudson's Black Tyrant (Knipolegus hudsoni) Male
Mendoza, Argentina  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Austral migrant from south Argentina as far north as Paraguay and Bolivia. Female brownish like all female Black Tyrants. Note white band in wings of male. Virtually identical to White-winged Black Tyrant but smaller.

Rufous-tailed Tyrant
Rufous-tailed Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilurus poecilurus)
Reserva Natural las Palmeras, Cubarral, Meta, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Local. Note red eye uncommon among Tyrannidae.
Wings lifted.

Cinereous Tyrant
Cinereous Tyrant (Knipolegus striaticeps) Female
Argentina  
   
Photograph by Gustavo Masuzzo   © All Rights Reserved.



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