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Muscigralla brevicauda

Short-tailed Field Tyrant

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Containing group: Tyrannidae

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Scientific Name Muscigralla brevicauda
Location Arbol Millenary Reserve, via Chiclayo, Peru
Comments One of many Tyrant Flycatchers in Peru (there's hundreds of them!!). This one spends it's time on or near the ground gleaning insects, and is fairly common on the coast and in the dry Marañón Valley in the eastern Andes, up to about 1200m elevation. We saw this species several times.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Short-tailed Field-Tyrant (Muscigralla brevicauda)
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2009 David Cook Wildlife Photography
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