Birds of Peru - Knipolegus


White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Male Machu Picchu, Peru
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White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Female Paucartambo, Peru
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Front view.


Plumbeous Tyrant (Knipolegus cabanisi) Male Parque Provincial, Potrero de Yala, Jujuy province, Argentina Split from the Andean Tyrant
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis orenocensis) Male Venezuela
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis) Female Marchantaria Island, Irandub, Amazonas, Brazil A streaked 'sclateri' female.
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The female of the race along the Amazon River is streaked, but is dark grey in the other two races. HBW now called the Amazon River subspecies (sclateri) Sclater's Black Tyrant, and it looks a little like a female Scarlet Flycatcher.


Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus) Male Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
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Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus) Female Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
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Stays one to two meters above the forest floor.


Rufous-tailed Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilurus poecilurus) Reserva Natural las Palmeras, Cubarral, Meta, Colombia
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Local. Note red eye uncommon among Tyrannidae.
Wings lifted.


Jelski's Black Tyrant (Knipolegus signatus) Female Peru The male is all black.
Photograph by François Grenon © All Rights Reserved.

Once called the Andean Tyrant, but split into this species and Plumbeous Tyrant.