Species profile
Short-tailed Field-tyrant
Muscigralla brevicauda
Quick answer
Arid sw Ecuador to extreme n Chile; Gorgona I. (Colombia)
- Scientific name
- Muscigralla brevicauda
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Muscigralla
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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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 Black-Tyrant (Knipolegus poecilocercus)
- Amazonian Inezia (Inezia subflava)