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Tyrannus savana (Fork-tailed Flycatcher)

Synonyms: Muscivora tyrannus
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The fork-tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus savana) is a passerine bird of the tyrant flycatcher family, and is the member of a genus typically referred to as kingbirds.
View Wikipedia Record: Tyrannus savana

Infraspecies

Tyrannus savana circumdatus
Tyrannus savana monachus
Tyrannus savana sanctaemartae
Tyrannus savana savana

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.22701
EDGE Score: 1.44149
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29 grams
Female Weight [1]  27 grams
Male Weight [1]  32 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  18.5 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical grasslands
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical grasslands, Agricultural
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Forages - Understory [3]  50 %
Forages - Ground [3]  50 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Incubation [4]  15 days
Mating System [7]  Monogamy
Migration [6]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ficus reflexa reflexa[8]
Ficus thonningii (Chinese banyan)[8]
Hypalastoroides ruficeps[9]
Polybia occidentalis[9]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Full list (139)
Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Dryocopus lineatus (Lineated Woodpecker)2
Elaenia flavogaster (Yellow-bellied Elaenia)2
Pitangus sulphuratus (Great Kiskadee)2
Tyrannus melancholicus (Tropical Kingbird)2
Vireo olivaceus (Red-eyed Vireo)2

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 7Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 8"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 9Raw, A. (1997). Avian predation on individual neotropical social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) outside their nests. Ornitologia neotropical, 8, 89-92.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0