Tyrannidae

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Noun

Tyrannidae - New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada

superfamily Tyrannidae

bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

suborder Tyranni, Tyranni - New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers

New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing

genus Tyrannus, Tyrannus - type genus of the Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers

Contopus, genus Contopus - pewees

genus Sayornis, Sayornis - phoebes

genus Pyrocephalus, Pyrocephalus - a genus of Tyrannidae

Cotingidae, family Cotingidae - cotingas; umbrella birds

family Pittidae, Pittidae - pittas

genus Muscivora, Muscivora - a genus of Tyrannidae

References in periodicals archive ?

A continuacion los Anatidae con 13 especies, los Thraupidae con 12 especies, los Rallidae con 11 especies, los Tyrannidae y Ardeidae con 10 especies, son habitantes tipicos de los humedales.

Ciento quince anos de registros de aves en Pantanos de Villa

En la mayoria de taxones existen especies que presentan movimientos migratorios, sin embargo dentro del conjunto mas diverso de aves migratorias boreales que llegan a Colombia estan las familias Charadriidae, Parulidae, Tyrannidae, Hirundinidae, Thraupidae, Turdidae y Vireonidae (FIERRO, 2009).

Dieta de aves migratorias en un sistema agroecologico del valle del cauca, Colombia

Bird families having the largest numbers of fecal samples were Tyrannidae (45 samples), Thraupidae (18), Thamnophillidae (12), Turdidae (12) and Galbulidae (10).

Diet composition of birds associated to an urban forest patch in Northern Venezuela/Composicion de la dieta de las aves asociadas a un parche de bosque urbano en el Norte de Venezuela/Composicao da dieta das aves associada a uma trecho de floresta urbana no Norte da Venezuela

nigricans (Swainson, 1827) (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae) (common name in Mexico: Papamoscas negro).

New bird host records for Ornithoctona fusciventris (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) in Mexico

& Edwards S.V 2014: Introgression and phenotypic assimilation in Zimmerius flycatchers (Tyrannidae): population genetic and phylogenetic inferences from genome-wide SNPs.