Masked tityra
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| Species: | T. semifasciata
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| Tityra semifasciata (Spix, 1825)
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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.
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.
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ "Proposal (#313) to South American Classification Committee: Adopt the Family Tityridae". South American Classification Committee. 2007.
- ^ 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tityra semifasciata.
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
Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Tityra
- Birds of Belize
- Birds of Bolivia
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds of Central America
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of Costa Rica
- Birds of Ecuador
- Birds of El Salvador
- Birds of the Guianas
- Birds of Guatemala
- Birds of Honduras
- Birds of Mexico
- Birds of Nicaragua
- Birds of Panama
- Birds of Paraguay
- Birds of Peru
- Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
- Birds of Venezuela
- Animals described in 1825
- Tyranni stubs