Black-fronted Ground Tyrant

Muscisaxicola frontalis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesGrasslandCavity nestSmall · 29 g

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The black-fronted ground tyrant is 16.5 to 19 cm (6.5 to 7.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a black forecrown ("front"), a blackish chestnut hindcrown, conspicuous white lores, and a pale broken eye-ring on an otherwise ashy gray face. Their upperparts are ashy gray. Their wings are a duskier gray. Their tail is black with whitish outer webs of the outermost feathers. Their throat and underparts are pale gray-white. They have a dark brown iris, a slim black bill with a decurved tip, and black legs and feet. Voice: As of April 2025 xeno-canto had a single recording of a black-fronted ground tyrant vocalization and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had 11 others. Its song is not known; its calls are "a soft tink and treet".

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When to see the Black-fronted Ground Tyrant

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-fronted Ground Tyrant

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Black-fronted Ground Tyrant

The black-fronted ground tyrant is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.

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