Birds of Venezuela - Knipolegus


Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis orenocensis) Male Venezuela
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com © All Rights Reserved.


Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis xinguensis) Female Rio Araguaia, Pium, Tocantins, Brazil An unstreaked female.
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte © All Rights Reserved.

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.

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