Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Porculla Pass, Piura
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Porculla Pass, Piura
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Porculla Pass, Piura
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Chorobal, La Libertad
Identification & Behavior: ~12 cm (4.7 in). The Piura Chat-Tyrant has brownish upperparts including the rump. The crown is gray. The broad and long superciliary is white. The wing coverts are black with two rufous wing bars. The bill is black. The iris is dark. The underparts are grayish-white. It forages in the understory of semideciduous woodlands and scrub. It is similar to the White-browed Chat-Tyrant but is distinguished by a brown back, rufous wing bars, smaller size, and by foraging inside the forest.
Status: Endemic. The Piura Chat-Tyrant is uncommon to rare on the west slope of the Andes from Piura to Lima, at elevations ranging between 1400-2850 m.
Name in Spanish: Pitajo de Piura.
Sub-species: Piura Chat-Tyrant (Ochthoeca piurae), Chapman, 1924.
Meaning of Name: Ochthoeca: Gr. okhthos= bank, mound and oikos, oikeo = dwelling, to inhabit.
piurae: After Piura Province in northwestern Peru.
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- 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.