Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae

Genus

Tyrannus

eBird Code

fotfly

Vocalizations

Subspecies (4)

• Tyrannus savana circumdatus

  lower Amazonian Brazil (west to Manaus area)

• Tyrannus savana monachus

  southern Mexico (Veracruz) to Colombia, the Guianas, and northern Brazil (Roraima, lower Rio Negro, and perhaps Amapá)

• Tyrannus savana sanctaemartae

  Caribbean coast of northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela (Guajira Peninsula)

• Tyrannus savana savana

  breeds in central and southern South America (eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil southward to central Argentina); southern populations migratory, wintering in northern South America, including Trinidad and Tobago