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The genus Tyrannus is a group of large insect-eating bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s in the Tyrant flycatcher
Tyrant flycatcher

The tyrant flycatchers are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North America and South America, but are mainly Neotropical in distribution....
 family Tyrannidae. The majority are named as Kingbirds.

They prefer semi-open or open areas. These birds wait on an exposed perch and then catch insects in flight. They have long pointed wings and large broad bills.

These birds tend to defend their breeding territories aggressively, often chasing away much larger birds.






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The genus Tyrannus is a group of large insect-eating bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s in the Tyrant flycatcher
Tyrant flycatcher

The tyrant flycatchers are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North America and South America, but are mainly Neotropical in distribution....
 family Tyrannidae. The majority are named as Kingbirds.

They prefer semi-open or open areas. These birds wait on an exposed perch and then catch insects in flight. They have long pointed wings and large broad bills.

These birds tend to defend their breeding territories aggressively, often chasing away much larger birds. The genus name means "tyrant
Tyrant

This article is about the political ruler. For other uses see Tyrant and Tyranny In modern usage, a tyrant is a single ruler holding absolute political power over a state or within an organization....
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Species


  • Snowy-throated Kingbird
    Snowy-throated Kingbird

    The Snowy-throated Kingbird is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland....
    , Tyrannus niveigularis
  • White-throated Kingbird
    White-throated Kingbird

    The White-throated Kingbird is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, and in the Guianas of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana....
    , Tyrannus albogularis
  • Tropical Kingbird
    Tropical Kingbird

    The Tropical Kingbird is a large tyrant flycatcher. 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....
    , Tyrannus melancholicus
  • Couch's Kingbird
    Couch's Kingbird

    The Couch's Kingbird, Tyrannus couchii, is a passerine tyrant flycatcher of the kingbird genus. It is found from southern Texas along the Gulf Coast to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Belize and northern Guatemala....
    , Tyrannus couchii
  • Cassin's Kingbird
    Cassin's Kingbird

    The Cassin's Kingbird, Tyrannus vociferans, is a large Tyrant flycatcher.Adults have a gray head with slightly darker cheeks; a dark unforked tail with a buffy fringe and gray-olive underparts....
    , Tyrannus vociferans
  • Thick-billed Kingbird
    Thick-billed Kingbird

    The Thick-billed Kingbird, Tyrannus crassirostris, is a large bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers. This bird breeds from southeastern Arizona, extreme southwestern New Mexico, and northern Sonora, , in the United States and Mexico, through western and western-coastal Mexico, south to western Guatemala....
    , Tyrannus crassirostris
  • Western Kingbird
    Western Kingbird

    The Western Kingbird is a large tyrant flycatcher.Adults are grey-olive on the upperparts with a grey head and a dark line through the eyes; the underparts are light becoming light orange-yellow on the lower breast and belly....
    , Tyrannus verticalis
  • Eastern Kingbird
    Eastern Kingbird

    The Eastern Kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, is a large Tyrant flycatcher.Adults are grey-black on the upperparts with light underparts; they have a long black tail with a white end and long pointed wings....
    , Tyrannus tyrannus
  • Gray Kingbird
    Gray Kingbird

    The Gray Kingbird, also known as Pitirre, Tyrannus dominicensis, is a passerine bird. It breeds from the extreme southeast of the USA through Central America, from Cuba to Puerto Rico as well as eastward towards all across the Lesser West Indies, south to Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago the Guiana and Colombia....
    , Tyrannus dominicensis
  • Loggerhead Kingbird
    Loggerhead Kingbird

    The Loggerhead Kingbird is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.It is found in Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, and, very rarely, in the United States....
    , Tyrannus caudifasciatus
  • Giant Kingbird
    Giant Kingbird

    The Giant Kingbird is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.It is found in Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, and Turks and Caicos Islands.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps....
    , Tyrannus cubensis
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
    Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

    The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a long-tailed insect-eating bird closely related to the kingbirds.Adult birds have gray upper parts and light underparts with pinkish flanks....
    , Tyrannus forficatus
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher
    Fork-tailed Flycatcher

    The Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Tyrannus savana, is a passerine bird of tyrant flycatcher family which includes the kingbirds....
    , Tyrannus savana