Order: Passeriformes | Family: Tyrannidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Frejolillo, Lambayeque
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Chaparri, Lambayeque
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Pomac, Lambayeque
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Frejolillo, Lambayeque
Status: Endemic. The Tumbes Tyrant is fairly common in the northwestern lowlands where it is known to range up to 1000 m along the foothill of the Andes.
Name in Spanish: Pitajo de Tumbes.
Sub-species: Tumbes Tyrant (Tumbezia salvini), (Taczanowski), 1877.
Meaning of Name: Tumbezia: Genus named after Tumbes a región in extreme northwest Peru. salvini: In honor of Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) English ornithologist, Curator of Ornithology, Cambridge University 1874-1882, collector.
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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.