Black-fronted Ground Tyrant
Muscisaxicola frontalis(Burmeister, KHK, 1860)
English (US) Black-fronted Ground Tyrant
The Black-fronted Ground Tyrant (Muscisaxicola frontalis) 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: breeds Andes of Chile and Argentina; winters northward to southern Peru (Arequipa)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Muscisaxicola frontalis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-fronted Ground Tyrant
- Described by
- (Burmeister, KHK, 1860)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ptyonura frontalis
- Described by
- (Burmeister, KHK, 1860)
- Type locality
- foot of Sierra de Mendoza, Argentina.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 8, no.46 p.248
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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