Cliff Flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea)

Other Names (World)
Cliff Flycatcher, Swallow Flycatcher (bellicosa)

Family
Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers)

Size
18 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1788)

Range (Guide)

Argentina (B), Bolivia, Brazil (B), Chile, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (49)...)

Cliff Flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) [XC7900]
by Herman van Oosten from Mina Valencia,Lavalleja, Uruguay (call, song, short song)

Cliff Flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) [XC332883]
by Jerome Fischer from Perequ\u00ea - Angra dos Reis - RJ, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
Cliff Flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) and Swallow Flycatcher (Hirundinea bellicosa) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Hirundinea ferruginea following SACC (2005).

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

sclateri Reinhardt, 1870 - Western Venezuela and southern on eastern slope of eastern Andes from Colombia to south-eastern Peru (south to Cuzco).
ferruginea (Gmelin, 1788) - Disjunctly in extreme eastern Colombia (R Vaupes), north-western Brazil (north-western Amazonas), south-eastern Venezuela (Bol��var), south-western Guyana and French Guiana.
pallidior Hartert & Goodson, 1917 - Northern and eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay and north-western Argentina (south to La Rioja and C�rdoba).
bellicosa (Vieillot, 1819) - Southern and eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina (Misiones) and Uruguay. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Swallow Flycatcher (Hirundinea bellicosa).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Cliff Flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) - 10 files

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