White-fronted Ground Tyrant

Muscisaxicola albifrons (Tschudi, 1844)

White-fronted Ground Tyrant, Muscisaxicola albifrons, is a passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family that breeds in South America from Peru to northern Chile. It is also found in Bolivia, Chile and Peru, and lives in the Andes, mainly in bofedales and nearby drier ground. It is the largest member of its genus. Adults show a white forehead that reaches back in a V above the eyes, with the same plumage in both sexes. It is a year-round resident, and the only known nest was in an ice cavity in Peru.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Breeding range

South America: Peru to n Chile