Rufous-tailed Flatbill
Ramphotrigon ruficauda (Spix, 1825)
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Rufous-tailed Flatbill, Ramphotrigon ruficauda, is a passerine of Amazonia in South America, where it is a resident of humid evergreen forest and, in Brazil, wooded savanna. It occurs across the Amazon Basin and the Guiana Shield, from southeastern Colombia through eastern Ecuador and Peru to north-western Bolivia, and east through Venezuela, the Guianas and most of Amazonian Brazil. It is a member of the Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. The species is monotypic and was first described by Spix in 1825. Its breeding range is South America: Amazonia.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: Amazonia
