Boat-billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) Science Article 1 abstract Kleptoparasitism, the interspecific and intraspecific stealing of already procured food, is well known among many taxa of birds (Brockmann & Barnard 1979), but has been reported only rarely in the avian family Tyrannidae. To my knowledge there are only two published observations of kleptoparasitism by tyrannid flycatchers, […]
Tag: Boat-billed Flycatcher
Boat billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)
[order] Passeriformes | [family] Tyrannidae | [latin] Megarynchus pitangua | [UK] Boat-billed Flycatcher | [FR] Tyran pitangua | [DE] Starkschnabel-Maskentyrann | [ES] Bienteveo Pitangua | [IT] Pitango beccogrosso | [NL] Bootsnaveltiran Subspecies Genus Species subspecies Breeding Range Breeding Range 2 Non Breeding Range Tyrannopsis pitangua Megarynchus pitangua LA Mexico to ne Argentina Megarynchus pitangua caniceps […]