Cliff flycatcher
| Cliff flycatcher | |
|---|---|
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| In Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, Brazil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Hirundinea Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 |
| Species: | H. ferruginea |
| Binomial name | |
| Hirundinea ferruginea (Gmelin, 1788) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hirundinea bellicosa (Vieillot, 1819) | |
The cliff flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. The cliff flycatcher is the only species in the genus Hirundinea after the swallow flycatcher was merged herein as subspecies Hirundinea ferruginea bellicosa.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Range
The cliff flycatcher is only found east of the Andes cordillera, and therefore is not found in Chile. All other South American countries are represented. In the Amazon Basin, it surrounds the basin in the foothills, and highest elevations at tributaries' headwaters; it ranges down to central Argentina west of the Pampas, and east of the Pampas to southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay; also southeast of the Amazon Basin in the Brazilian Highlands, to the Atlantic and south Atlantic coast of Brazil, about an 8000 km stretch of coastline.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Hirundinea ferruginea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
Media related to Hirundinea ferruginea at Wikimedia Commons- Cliff flycatcher videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Photo-Medium Res; Article chandra.as.utexas.edu
- Cliff flycatcher photo gallery VIREO
