Birds of the World - Knipolegus


White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Male Range: SA: Peru to c Argentina Machu Picchu, Peru
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White-winged Black Tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus) Female Range: SA: Peru to c Argentina Paucartambo, Peru
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Front view.


Plumbeous Tyrant (Knipolegus cabanisi) Male Range: SA: se Peru, w Bolivia and nw Argentina Parque Provincial, Potrero de Yala, Jujuy province, Argentina Split from the Andean Tyrant
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Blue-billed Black Tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) Male Range: SA: se, s Brazil, e Paraguay, ne Argentina and Uruguay Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Blue-billed Black Tyrant (Knipolegus cyanirostris) Female Range: SA: se, s Brazil, e Paraguay, ne Argentina and Uruguay Itatiaia National Park, Brazil
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Sao Francisco Black Tyrant (Knipolegus franciscanus) Male Range: SA: e Brazil Sobradinho, Brazil
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Sao Francisco Black Tyrant (Knipolegus franciscanus) Female Range: SA: e Brazil Sobradinho, Brzail
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Split from the White-winged Black Tyrant, and sometimes called the Caatinga Black Tyrant because of the 'Caatinga' desert region where it is found.


Hudson's Black Tyrant (Knipolegus hudsoni) Male Range: SA: c Argentina Mendoza, Argentina
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Austral migrant from south Argentina as far north as Paraguay and Bolivia. Female brownish like all female Black Tyrants. Note white band in wings of male. Virtually identical to White-winged Black Tyrant but smaller.


Crested Black Tyrant (Knipolegus lophotes) Range: SA: c, se Brazil to Uruguay Altiplano Leste, Brasilia, Brazil
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Velvety Black Tyrant (Knipolegus nigerrimus nigerrimus) Male Range: SA: e, se Brazil Caraça sanctuary, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Velvety Black Tyrant (Knipolegus nigerrimus) Female Range: SA: e, se Brazil Parque Estadual dos Pireneus, Cocalzinho de Goiás, Brazil
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis orenocensis) Male Range: SA: Amazonia Venezuela
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis) Female Range: SA: Amazonia Marchantaria Island, Irandub, Amazonas, Brazil A streaked 'sclateri' female.
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Riverside Tyrant (Knipolegus orenocensis xinguensis) Female Range: SA: Amazonia Rio Araguaia, Pium, Tocantins, Brazil An unstreaked 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 Range: SA: Amazonia Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
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Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus) Female Range: SA: Amazonia Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia
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Stays one to two meters above the forest floor.


Rufous-tailed Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilurus poecilurus) Range: SA: w Venezuela to e Peru and tepuis 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 Range: SA: n Peru Peru The male is all black.
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Once called the Andean Tyrant, but split into this species and Plumbeous Tyrant.


Cinereous Tyrant (Knipolegus striaticeps) Female Range: SA: e Bolivia to c Argentina Argentina
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