Masked water tyrant
| Masked water tyrant | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Fluvicola |
| Species: | F. nengeta |
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| Fluvicola nengeta (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
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The masked water tyrant (Fluvicola nengeta) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers, one of three in the genus Fluvicola.
Distribution and habitat
It is found in its major range in eastern and southeastern Brazil in the caatinga and extreme eastern cerrado, and also Atlantic coastal regions; a second smaller disjunct range occurs on the Pacific side of South America in western Ecuador, and coastal border regions of northwest Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Fluvicola nengeta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fluvicola nengeta. |
- "Masked water tyrant" videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- "Masked water tyrant" photo gallery VIREO Photo-(Close-up)
- Photo-Very High Res--(Bird on nest); Article; Photo-no. 2 of 2 w3.impa.br–"Rio de Janeiro, Botanical Garden photos"
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