Species profile
Amazonian Black-Tyrant
Knipolegus poecilocercus
Quick answer
S Venezuela and w Guyana to e Ecuador and Amazonian Brazil
- Scientific name
- Knipolegus poecilocercus
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Knipolegus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Amazonian Black-Tyrant in your journal
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Related species in Tyrannidae
- Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)
- Acre Tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus cohnhafti)
- Agile Tit-Tyrant (Anairetes agilis)
- Agriornis andicola (Agriornis andicola)
- Alagoas Tyrannulet (Phylloscartes ceciliae)
- Alder/willow Flycatcher (traill's Flycatcher) (Empidonax alnorum)
- Amazonian Inezia (Inezia subflava)
- Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher (Sublegatus obscurior)