Cliff flycatcher

Cliff flycatcher
In Pindamonhangaba, São Paulo, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Tyrannidae
Genus:Hirundinea
Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837
Species: H. ferruginea
Binomial name
Hirundinea ferruginea
(Gmelin, 1788)
Synonyms

Hirundinea bellicosa (Vieillot, 1819)

The cliff flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. The cliff flycatcher is the only species in the genus Hirundinea after the swallow flycatcher was merged herein as subspecies Hirundinea ferruginea bellicosa.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.

Range

The cliff flycatcher is only found east of the Andes cordillera, and therefore is not found in Chile. All other South American countries are represented. In the Amazon Basin, it surrounds the basin in the foothills, and highest elevations at tributaries' headwaters; it ranges down to central Argentina west of the Pampas, and east of the Pampas to southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay; also southeast of the Amazon Basin in the Brazilian Highlands, to the Atlantic and south Atlantic coast of Brazil, about an 8000 km stretch of coastline.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Hirundinea ferruginea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.


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