Jelski's Black Tyrant

Knipolegus signatus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebratesForestSmall · 18 g

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Jelski's black tyrant is 14.5 to 16.5 cm (5.7 to 6.5 in) long. Adult males are entirely sooty black. Adult females have mostly dark olive-brown upperparts with more rufous uppertail coverts. Their wings are dark olive-brown with whitish to buff edges on the coverts that show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky with thin cinnamon-rufous edges to the feathers. Their underparts are mostly heavily streaked with dark grayish olive and their undertail coverts are dark buffy. Both sexes have a dark red or chestnut iris, a blackish bill, and black legs and feet. Voice: As of May 2025 neither xeno-canto nor the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had any recordings of Jelski's black tyrant vocalizations.

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When to see the Jelski's Black Tyrant

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

Where to see the Jelski's Black Tyrant

Regular range

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About the Jelski's Black Tyrant

Jelski's black tyrant, or Andean tyrant, is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

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