Masked tityra
The masked tityra (Tityra semifasciata) is a medium-sized passerine bird. It has traditionally been placed in the cotinga or the tyrant flycatcher family, but evidence strongly suggests that it is better placed in Tityridae,[2] where now placed by SACC.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Tityridae |
Genus: | Tityra |
Species: | T. semifasciata |
Binomial name | |
Tityra semifasciata (Spix, 1825) | |
It is found in forest and woodland from Mexico, through Central America, to northwestern and central South America (as far south as Paraguay).
Measuring 20 cm (7.9 in),[3] it has a black-and-whitish plumage, and a distinct red eye-ring and base of the bill. The head is black in the male, while it is brownish or greyish in the female. The male resembles the black-tailed tityra, but can be separated by its smaller black face mask (does not include the nape) and white tail-tip.
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Turrialba, Costa Rica
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Tityra semifasciata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Proposal (#313) to South American Classification Committee: Adopt the Family Tityridae". South American Classification Committee. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-05-08.
- Garrigues, Richard; Dean, Robert (2007). The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tityra semifasciata. |
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Wikispecies has information related to Tityra semifasciata |
- "Masked tityra media". Internet Bird Collection.
- Masked tityra photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Masked tityra species account at Neotropical Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Interactive range map of Tityra semifasciata at IUCN Red List maps
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