Spectacled tyrant

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Spectacled tyrant
Hymenops perspicillatus Argentina.jpg
male at Entre Ríos Province, Argentina
Female spectacled tyrant.jpg
female at Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Hymenops
Lesson, 1828
Species:
H. perspicillatus
Binomial name
Hymenops perspicillatus
(Gmelin, 1789)
Hymenops perspicillatus map.svg

The spectacled tyrant (Hymenops perspicillatus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the only one in the genus Hymenops.

It is found in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay; it is a vagrant to Bolivia, Paraguay and southeastern Brazil, once even in far northeastern Brazil.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and swamps.

References[]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Hymenops perspicillatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22700266A93766598. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22700266A93766598.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Sagot-Martin, François; Lima, Rafael Dantas; Pacheco, José Fernando; Irusta, Jorge Bañuelos; Pichorim, Mauro; Hassett, David Maurice (2020-09-21). "An updated checklist of the birds of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with comments on new, rare, and unconfirmed species". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 140 (3). doi:10.25226/bboc.v140i3.2020.a2. ISSN 0007-1595. S2CID 221823889.
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