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Amazonian Black Tyrant

Knipolegus poecilocercus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestDomed nestTiny · 14 g
Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus), photo 1
Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0
Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus), photo 2
Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0
Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus), photo 3
Photo: David F. Belmonte · CC BY 4.0
Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus), photo 4
Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0
Amazonian Black Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus), photo 5
Photo: Ben Costamagna · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

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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When to see the Amazonian Black Tyrant

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Amazonian Black Tyrant

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Brazil Venezuela Peru Guyana

Recorded as a rare visitor in Ecuador, Suriname.

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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Easily confused with

Plumbeous Tyrant (Knipolegus cabanisi) Plumbeous TyrantKnipolegus cabanisiThe plumbeous tyrant is 14.5 to 16.5 cm (5.7 to 6.5 in) long. Hudson's Black Tyrant (Knipolegus hudsoni) 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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