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 LC    Great Kiskadee* Id (Atlas):
    Pitangus sulphuratus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Great Kiskadee, Greater Kiskadee, Kiskadee Flycatcher

Family
Tyrannidae (Tyrant-flycatchers)

Size
22 - 24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, mangroves, dry grassland, moist shrubland. From sea-level - 1,600 m.

Range (Guide)
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.

Introduced to Bermuda.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000,000 - 99,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (233)...)

 
Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) [XC313794]
     by Yair Guillermo Molina Mart\u00ednez. from San Nicol\u00e1s de los Garza, San Nicol\u00e1s de los Garza, Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Mexico (call)

 
Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) [XC486153]
     by Ted Floyd from Eco Finca Luna del Puente, Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Departamento de Cort\u00e9s, Honduras (call)

Subspecies
Affinities uncertain. May be closely related to Myiozetetes, given numerous similarities in nesting behaviour. Populations in Amazonia, including slightly larger birds of south-eastern Colombia and the Guianas, may be better represented as a single subspecies (nominate), owing to lack of clear distinctions and to the existence of gradual clines of increasing wing length northern and south of Amazon that are not correlated with any observed colour differences. Formal revision, including genetic survey, is necessary in order to determine the most appropriate taxonomic designations.

The following 10 subspecies are recognised:

  • texanus van Rossem, 1940   -  Extreme southern USA (lower Rio Grande) and eastern Mexico (south to southern Veracruz).
  • derbianus (Kaup, 1852)   -  Western Mexico (Sonora south to Isthmus of Tehuántepec).
  • guatimalensis (Lafresnaye, 1852)   -  South-eastern Mexico (southern Veracruz, eastern Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatán Peninsula), Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador south to central Panama.
  • rufipennis (Lafresnaye, 1851)   -  Northern Colombia (Caribbean coast and lower Magdalena Valley), northern and central Venezuela (east to western Sucre and Monagas, south to northern Amazonas and northern Bolí­var).
  • caucensis Chapman, 1914   -  Western and southern Colombia (south-western Bolí­var, R Cauca and upper R Magdalena).
  • trinitatis Hellmayr, 1906   -  Eastern Colombia (R Meta), southern and eastern Venezuela (Amazonas, and eastern Sucre south to Orinoco Delta and eastern Bolí­var) and north-western Brazil (R Surumú and R Cotinga). Also Patos I and Trinidad.
  • sulphuratus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  The Guianas, northern Brazil (south to Amazon, east to Amapá and Marajó I), and east of Andes from south-eastern Colombia and eastern Ecuador south to south-eastern Peru.
  • maximiliani (Cabanis & Heine, 1860)   -  Eastern and southern Brazil (Maranhío and Piauí­ south to Mato Grosso, Goiás and Santa Catarina), northern Bolivia (Beni) and Paraguay.
  • bolivianus (Lafresnaye, 1852)   -  Eastern Bolivia (Cochabamba south to Tarija).
  • argentinus Todd, 1952   -  Argentina (south to eastern Mendoza, Córdoba and Rí­o Negro), eastern Paraguay, extreme south-eastern Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) and Uruguay.



References
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Files:
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