Puna Ground-Tyrant

About the Puna Ground-Tyrant

The puna ground tyrant (Muscisaxicola juninensis) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The puna ground-tyrant is monotypic. The authors of an early twentieth century publication suggested possibly treating M. juninensis (then called the Junin ground-tyrant) as a subspecies of the white-browed ground tyrant (M. albilora).

The puna ground tyrant is 16 to 16.5 cm (6.3 to 6.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dull cinnamon crown, a white spot above their lores, a faint pale supercilium, and a pale broken eye-ring on an otherwise pale brownish gray face. Their upperparts are mostly pale brownish gray with a black lower rump. Their wings are dusky gray. Their tail is black with white edges on the outer webs of the outermost feathers. Their throat and belly are whitish and their breast pale gray. They have a dark iris, a black bill, and black legs and feet. Juveniles have pale cinnamon edges on the wing coverts and buffy underparts.

The puna ground tyrant is found along the Andes from Ancash Department in... Wikipedia →