Masked Water Tyrant

Fluvicola nengeta (Linnaeus, 1766)

Masked Water Tyrant, Fluvicola nengeta, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family in South America, breeding in western Ecuador, north-western Peru and eastern Brazil. It is a resident bird with a split range, and the nominate form is the more widespread. The species is linked to open shrubland close to fresh water, especially marshes and rice fields, and it also uses the edges of ponds, lakes, streams and rivers. In Brazil it is increasingly recorded in parks in towns and suburbs, and the species is known from both lowland and higher ground.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Breeding range

South America: w Ecuador, nw Peru and e Brazil