Crowned Chat-tyrant

Crowned Chat-tyrant
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Ochthoeca
Species: O. frontalis
Binomial name
Ochthoeca frontalis
(Lafresnaye, 1847)

The Crowned Chat-tyrant (Ochthoeca frontalis) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Clements splits this species, with the subspecies frontalis, albidiadema and orientalis remaining as Crowned Chat-tyrant, and spodionota and boliviana becoming Peruvian Chat-tyrant, Ochthoeca spodionota.

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