Strange-tailed Tyrant
Alectrurus risora(Vieillot, LJP, 1824)
English (US) Strange-tailed Tyrant
The Strange-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus risora) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: locally in eastern Paraguay, southern Brazil, Uruguay, and northern ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Alectrurus risora
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Strange-tailed Tyrant
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1824)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Muscicapa risora
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1824)
- Type locality
- Brazil; restricted to Rio Grande do Sul by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves. Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool. Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 113.
- Original description
- La Galerie des Oiseaux du Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelle du Jardin du Roi (etc.) 1 p.209 pl.131
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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