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| + | Insects, including large beetles, also small vertebrates including lizards. | ||
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| + | Usually quiet; breeding male emits weak ''bur-bit'' at dawn and dusk from the ground or a rock. | ||
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| + | After breeding, moves north to winter in the Pampas of northeast Argentina. | ||
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- Neoxolmis rufiventris
Identification
Length: 22-23 cm (8¾-9 in)
Large and distinctive terrestrial flycatcher. Head is ashy grey with blackish fore-face. Upperparts are brownish-grey. Wing pattern is striking with a frosty pale shoulder, chestnut secondaries and inner primaries, a bold white trailing edge and a blackish outer wing. Breast is pale gray contrasting with pale rusty belly.
Similar Species
May be confused with Austral Thrush but Chocolate-vented Tyrant has gray head including throat, different wing pattern, and black bill and legs.
Distribution
Breeds in Patagonian Chile (only Magellanes including Tierra del Fuego) and Argentina; in winter found further north into Uruguay.
Vagrant to Brazil.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
This species has in the past been placed in genus Xolmis, but the current world-wide checklists all agree on Neoxolmis.
Habitat
Temperate grassland.
Behaviour
Breeding
Nest is a bowl-shaped cup, lined with grasses and feathers.
Diet
Insects, including large beetles, also small vertebrates including lizards.
Vocalisations
Usually quiet; breeding male emits weak bur-bit at dawn and dusk from the ground or a rock.
Movements
After breeding, moves north to winter in the Pampas of northeast Argentina.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Alvaro Jaramillo. 2003. Birds of Chile. Princeton Field Guides. ISBN 0-691-11740-3
- Ridgely and Tudor 2009. Field guide to the songbirds of South America - The Passerines. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71979-8
- van Perlo 2009. A field guide to the Birds of Brazil. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-530155-7
- Chocolate-vented Tyrant (Neoxolmis rufiventris), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/chvtyr2
- Farnsworth, A. & Langham, G. (2019). Chocolate-vented Tyrant (Neoxolmis rufiventris). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/57422 on 15 January 2019).
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chocolate-vented Tyrant. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chocolate-vented_Tyrant
