Birds of Ecuador

    PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura)  
Genus: Tumbezia (1 species, 1 worldwide)


Tumbes Tyrant
Tumbes Tyrant (Tumbezia salvini)
Quebrada El Limón, Peru  
   
Photograph by Bradley Hacker   © All Rights Reserved.

A former Peruvian endemic species recently discovered in Ecuador. The Tumbes is a dry transition zone from wet Choco to the Peruvian desert.


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