Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

The Tropical Kingbird (Tyrannus melancholicus) is a 37 g town and farmland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

37 g

Habitat

Human Modified

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

26

Recorded in Colombia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, United States, Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, GF, Canada, Curaçao, Chile, AW.

Where to see it: Parque Simon Bolivar (Venezuela); Parque del Este (Venezuela); Posada El Gallo (Venezuela); 2a calle, Lotificación Minerva. (El Salvador); Barrio La Leona (FW) (Honduras).

Photo: (c) Esteban Poveda, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist