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Dark-faced Ground Tyrant
Muscisaxicola maclovianus (Garnot, 1826)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Dark-faced Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola maclovianus breeds in South America’s western and southern cone, with the Falkland Islands as the only home of the nominate form and another race ranging through Chile, western Argentina, southern Uruguay and into Peru. It is a passerine in the Tyrannidae family. Adults show a blackish face, a dull chestnut-brown crown, dark brown upperparts, a black lower rump and tail, grey throat and breast, and a white belly and crissum. Juveniles are streaked on the throat and have buff-edged wing coverts. It nests in a grass cup set in rock crevices or hollows.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: w, Southern Cone
