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Blue-billed Black Tyrant
Knipolegus cyanirostris (Vieillot, 1818)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Blue-billed Black Tyrant, Knipolegus cyanirostris, is a passerine of the Tyrannidae family found in south-east and southern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, north-east Argentina and Uruguay. It inhabits the margins of humid forest and gallery forest, and it also occurs in nearby semi-open scrub. In the southern part of its range, many birds move north for the austral winter. The species was first described in 1818 and is monotypic. It breeds in Argentina in November and December, and its nest is an open cup placed on a tree branch.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: se, s Brazil, e Paraguay, ne Argentina and Uruguay
