| Boat-billed flycatcher | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tyrannidae |
| Genus: | Megarynchus |
| Species: | M. pitangua
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| Binomial name | |
| Megarynchus pitangua (Linnaeus, 1766)
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The boat-billed flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) is a passerine bird. It is a large tyrant flycatcher, the only member of the monotypic genus Megarynchus.
It breeds in open woodland with some tall trees from Mexico south to Bolivia and Argentina, and through to Trinidad.
The nest, built by the female, is an open saucer of sticks. The typical clutch is two or three whitish eggs heavily blotched with brown. These are incubated mostly by the female for 17–18 days with a further 24 days to fledging.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Megarynchus pitangua". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22700533A93783432. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22700533A93783432.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.