Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Description:

Photo take in a jungle path. An adult Tropical Kingbird is 22 cm long and weighs 39 g. The head is pale grey, with a darker eye mask, an orange crown stripe, and a heavy grey bill. The back is greyish-green, and the wing and forked tail are brown. The throat is pale grey, becoming olive on the breast, with the rest of the underparts being yellow. The sexes are similar, but young birds have pale buff edges on the wing coverts.

Habitat:

This bird breeds from southern Arizona and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the USA through Central America, South America as far as south as central Argentina and western Peru, and on Trinidad and Tobago. Birds from the northernmost and southern breeding areas migrate to warmer parts of the range after breeding.

Species ID Suggestions

5 Comments

bayucca 11 years ago

Gerardo: Here is a noce Great Kiskadee to compare with your Kingbird. I should add that the brown part is not at the belly but at the bugs of the wings.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/172...

Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Thanks Bayucca this is a good tip i will read more about it :):)

bayucca 11 years ago

Forked tail and "only" yellow and gray colors is typical for kingbird. Kiskadee has a very tiny hook at the end of the beak, no forked tail sometimes some brown at the sides ofthe belly and a black cap, sometimes you see in the middle some yellow or orange. That just a very short overview...