Short-tailed Field Tyrant
Muscigralla brevicaudad'Orbigny, ACVMD; de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1837
English (US) Short-tailed Field Tyrant
The Short-tailed Field Tyrant (Muscigralla brevicauda) 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: arid southwestern Ecuador to far northern Chile; Gorgona Island (Colombia)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Muscigralla brevicauda
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Short-tailed Field Tyrant
- Described by
- d'Orbigny, ACVMD; de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1837
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- M[uscigralla] brevicauda
- Described by
- d'Orbigny, ACVMD; de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1837
- Type locality
- Tacna, Peru.
- Original description
- Magasin de Zoologie 7 cl.2 p.61
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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