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Introduction
Sayornis blackening Classification (COI) Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subembr. Vertebrata Class Aves Order Passeriformes Family Tyrannidae Genus Sayornis Binomial name (In taxonomy (botany, zoology, etc.), the binomial name, or binomial, comes from the…) Sayornis nigricans
(Swainson, 1827) Statut de conservation IUCNÂ :
The Black Flycatcher (Sayornis nigricans) is a species (In the life sciences, the species (from the Latin species, “type”…) of bird (A bird (or class of Aves) is a tetrapod animal belonging to the phylum of…) belonging to the family Tyrannidae.
Morphological description
It measures on average (The average is a statistical measurement characterizing the elements of a set of…) 14.6 cm long and, unlike other flycatchers, it has very contrasting dark brown or black plumage on the head, the chest, the back (In anatomy, in vertebrate animals including humans, the back is the part…), the wings and the tail and white (White is the color of a body heated to around 5,000 °C (see…) on the belly and under the wings.
Distribution and habitat
This species spends more time along streams and ponds than other species of Flycatchers and is not migratory but remains on site throughout the year. year (A year is a unit of time expressing the duration between two occurrences of a related event…).
It is native to the west of America (America is a separate continent, to the west, Asia and…) from the North (North is a cardinal point, opposite the south.), going from the southwest (Southwest is the direction halfway between the southern cardinal points and west. The…) from Oregon and California to west Texas and northern Mexico.
In South America (South is a cardinal point, opposite to north.), it is found in the Andean region, from Colombia to northern Argentina.
Behavior
Like other flycatchers, it waves its tail constantly when it is perched and on the lookout, placed on a perch such as a branch or a post (A post is a structural organ of a work on which people concentrate… ) fence (A fence designates any natural or man-made obstacle (barrier) and following…), ready to fly away to capture an insect (Insects (Insecta) are part of the sub-branched hexapods, itself included in…) then return to its starting point (Graphics).
Its song is a repetition of sisee and sitsew and its cry is similar to that of the Flycatcher (Moucherolle is a vernacular name designating in French passerines, of the family…) phébi.
Subspecies
According to Alan P. Peterson, there are 6 subspecies:
- Sayornis nigricans amnicola
- Sayornis nigricans angustirostras
- Sayornis nigris aquaticus
- Sayornis nigricans latirostris
- Sayornis blackened blackened
- Sayornis nigricans semiater
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