About the Amazonian Black Tyrant
The Amazonian black-tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is particularly native to riverbanks of the Amazon rainforest.
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The Amazonian black tyrant is about 12.7 to 13.5 cm (5.0 to 5.3 in) long and weighs about 14 g (0.49 oz). It has unusually large eyes. Adult males are almost entirely glossy black with a slight bluish sheen. Their primaries have a brownish tinge. Adult females have a mostly olive-brown head and upperparts with grayish white lores and eye-ring and rufous uppertail coverts. Their wings are dusky with buff edges on the flight feathers and cinnamon-buff tips on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky with cinnamon edges on the feathers.
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Where the Amazonian Black Tyrant lives
When to see the Amazonian Black Tyrant
Peak activity in February · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Plumbeous TyrantKnipolegus cabanisiThe plumbeous tyrant is 14.5 to 16.5 cm (5.7 to 6.5 in) long.
Hudson's Black TyrantKnipolegus hudsoniHudson's black tyrant is about 15 to 15.5 cm (5.9 to 6.1 in) long.
Riverside TyrantKnipolegus orenocensisThe riverside tyrant is 15 to 15.5 cm (5.9 to 6.1 in) long and weighs 18 to 21 g (0.63 to 0.74 oz).
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