Masked Tityra

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Masked Tityra
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Tityridae Genus: Tityra Species: T. semifasciata
Binomial name
Tityra semifasciata (Spix, 1825)

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 suggest it is better placed in Tityridae^[1], where now placed by SACC. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela, and has occurred as a vagrant in the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

[edit] Source

• BirdLife International 2004. Tityra semifasciata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.