Black-tailed tityra

Black-tailed tityra
Black-tailed tityra photographed in the Arena Forest Preserve on January 17, 2017 in Trinidad.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tityridae
Genus: Tityra
Species:
T. cayana
Binomial name
Tityra cayana
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms

Lanius cayanus Linnaeus, 1766
Tityra braziliensis (Swainson, 1837)

Sacha Lodge - Ecuador

The black-tailed tityra (Tityra cayana) is a medium-sized passerine bird of tropical South America. The tityras have been placed in the cotinga or the tyrant flycatcher families (Cotingidae and Tyrannidae) by various authors. But the weight of evidence strongly suggest they and their closest relatives are better separated as Tityridae; the AOU for example advocates this separation.[2]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Tityra cayana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103676987A93792271. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103676987A93792271.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Mobley (2004), SACC (2007)