Cock-tailed Tyrant
Alectrurus tricolor(Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
English (US) Cock-tailed Tyrant
The Cock-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus tricolor) 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 Bolivia, northeastern Argentina, northeastern Paraguay, and southern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Alectrurus tricolor
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Cock-tailed Tyrant
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Gallita tricolor
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1816)
- Type locality
- I'Amerique meridionale [= Paraguay, cf. Vieillot, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., 12, p. 408, ex Azara's 'Gallito, no. 225].
- Original description
- Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire p.68
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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