Birds of Ecuador

    PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura)  
Genus: Knipolegus (4 species, 12 worldwide)


Riverside Tyrant
Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis orenocensis) Male
Venezuela  
   
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com   © All Rights Reserved.

Riverside Tyrant
Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis) Female
Marchantaria Island, Irandub, Amazonas, Brazil
  A streaked 'sclateri' female.
   
Photograph by Hector Bottai     Copyright and usage info

The female of the race along the Amazon River is streaked, but is dark grey in the other two races. HBW now called the Amazon River subspecies (sclateri) Sclater's Black Tyrant, and it looks a little like a female Scarlet Flycatcher.

Amazonian Black Tyrant
Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus) Male
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Amazonian Black Tyrant
Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus) Female
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Stays one to two meters above the forest floor.

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.

Jelski's Black Tyrant
Jelski's Black Tyrant (Knipolegus signatus) Female
Peru
  The male is all black.
   
Photograph by François Grenon   © All Rights Reserved.

Once called the Andean Tyrant, but split into this species and Plumbeous Tyrant.


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