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Male
Photo by Reini
Costa Rica, February 2005

Tityra inquisitor

[edit] Identification

20 cm
Male

• Pale grey
• Black on the head, wings, and tail
  

Female

• Brown head

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

Female
Photo by Reini
San Manuel, Costa Rica, February 2005

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 6 subspecies:

• T. i. albitorques:

• Tropical eastern Panama to north-western Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil

• T. i. buckleyi:

• Tropical south-eastern Colombia (Caquetá) and eastern Ecuador (Napo-Pastaza)

• T. i. erythrogenys:

• Tropical eastern Colombia to Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil

• T. i. fraserii:

• Tropical south-eastern Mexico (San Luis Potosí) to central Panama

• T. i. inquisitor:

• Tropical south-eastern Brazil (southern Piauí) to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

• T. i. pelzelni:

• Tropical north-eastern Bolivia, Mato Grosso and Brazil south of the Amazon

[edit] Habitat

Atlantic Rainforest, forest edges, semi-open lowland humid forest and littoral forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

They utilise old woodpecker holes in dead trees for the nest.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. BF Member observations
4. Encyclopaedia Brittanica

• List of references

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