Royal flycatcher

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Royal flycatcher
Onychorhynchus coronatus - Amazonian Royal Flycatcher.JPG
Amazonian royal flycatcher at Apiacás, Mato Grosso state, Brasil
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tityridae
Genus: Onychorhynchus
Fischer von Waldheim, 1810

The royal flycatchers are a genus, Onychorhynchus, of passerine birds in the family Tityridae according to the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW). They place four species in the genus.[1][2]

However, the North American and South American Classification Committees of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) treat the genus as having one species, royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus), with four subspecies. They place it in family Onychorhynchidae with four other species of two genera that the IOC and HBW include in Tityridae. The Clements taxonomy also treats the royal flycatcher as one species with four subspecies. It places that species, the same four additional species as the AOS, and the sharpbill (Oxyruncus cristatus) in family Oxyruncidae, which the AOS reserves for the sharpbill alone.[3][4][5]

The specific epithet of the type species, coronatus, and the common name of all the species in this genus, royal flycatcher, refer to the striking, colourful crest,[6] which is seen displayed very rarely,[6] except after mating, while preening, in courtship as well as being handled.[6]

The genus contains these four species according to the IOC and HBW:

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Onychorhynchus coronatus - Amazonian Royal Flycatcher.JPG Onychorhynchus coronatus Amazonian royal flycatcher Amazon basin in northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern and western Brazil
Royal Flycatcher - Rio Tigre - Costa Rica S4E9879 (26631231311).jpg Onychorhynchus mexicanus Northern royal flycatcher Mexico, south through most of Central America, to northwestern Colombia and far western Venezuela
Onychorhynchus occidentalis Pacific royal flycatcher Western Ecuador and far northwestern Peru
Onychorhynchus swainsoni - Atlantic Royal Flycatcher 02.jpg Onychorhynchus swainsoni Atlantic royal flycatcher Atlantic forest in southeastern Brazil

References[]

  1. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (July 2021). "IOC World Bird List (v 11.2)". Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  2. ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved May 27, 2021
  3. ^ "Check-list of North and Middle American Birds". American Ornithological Society. June 29, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  4. ^ Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 24 August 2021. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithological Society. https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm retrieved August 24, 2021
  5. ^ Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ Retrieved August 25, 2021
  6. ^ a b c Ridgely, Robert and John A. Gwynne Jr. (1989). A Guide to the Birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691025126.
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