Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)

Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil

great_kiskadee
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Lago Lindo, San Martin

great_kiskadee
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil

great_kiskadee
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Amazonian Brazil


Identification & Behavior: ~21.5 cm (8.4 in). The Great Kiskadee has brown upperparts with wing coverts and flight feathers edged with rusty, but this is variable. It has a black crown, black sides of the head, and white broad superciliary. The throat is white. It has a thick black bill. The underparts are bright yellow. The tails feathers are faintly edged with rusty. It forages at lake edges and semi-open habitats. It is very similar to the Lesser Kiskadee but is distinguished by larger size, thick bill, rusty edging on the folded wing, and by not being necessarily associated with water. Also, see the even thicker-billed Boat-billed Flycatcher.

Status: The Great kiskadee is common and widespread in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 1200 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Bienteveo Grande.

Sub-species: Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus sulphuratus), (Linnaeus), 1766.  the Guianas, N Brazil (S to Amazon, E to Amapá and Marajó I), and E of Andes from SE Colombia and E Ecuador S to SE Peru.
(Pitangus sulphuratus maximiliani), (Cabanis and Heine), 1859.  E & S Brazil (Maranhão and Piauí S to Mato Grosso, Goiás and Santa Catarina), N Bolivia (Beni) and Paraguay.

Meaning of Name: Pitangus: Tupí name Pitanguá guacú for a large flycatcher, perhaps the Great Kiskadee. sulphuratus: L. sulphur, sulphuris= sulphur, sulphuratus, sulphurated.

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Distribution Map
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References:

    • Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum.  http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.