Black-backed Water-tyrant - Fluvicola albiventer

Black-backed Water-tyrant (Fluvicola albiventer)

Black-backed Water-tyrant, Marchantaria Island, Amazonas, Brazil, July 2001 - click for larger image

Marchantaria Island, Manaus, Brazil
July 2001

The Black-backed Water-tyrant is an active and conspicuous bird found on or near the ground in marsh and riverine habitats.

Its range includes the lower Amazon southwards to northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia but excluding south-east Brazil. During the Austral winter it migrates into western Amazonia.

It has all white underparts and mostly black upperparts with a white forehead, sides of the head and white-spotted wing-bar.

There is an illustration in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 42.

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