Cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant

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Cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant
Muscisaxicola capistratus Cinnamon-bellied Ground-Tyrant; Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Muscisaxicola
Species:
M. capistratus
Binomial name
Muscisaxicola capistratus
(Burmeister, 1860)
Muscisaxicola capistratus map.svg

The cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant (Muscisaxicola capistratus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers.

It is found in western Argentina, eastern Andean Chile, southwest Bolivia, and southern Peru. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.

The cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant breeds in extreme southern Argentina and Chile, and northern Tierra del Fuego, and migrates north in the austral winter.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2019). "Muscisaxicola capistratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019: e.T22700152A155606600. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22700152A155606600.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.