Streamer-tailed Tyrant - Gubernetes yetapa

Streamer-tailed Tyrant (Gubernetes yetapa)

Streamer-tailed Tyrant, Canastra, Minas Gerais, Brazil, April 2001 - click for a larger image

Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais, Brazil
April 2001

The Streamer-tailed Tyrant is a large and spectacular flycatcher found in damp grasslands and marshes close to streams. It requires bushes (or utility lines) on which to perch while searching for its prey.

It is found in south-central and south-east Brazil, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina.

It has a grey back with blackish wings on which there is a patch of cinnamon-rufous, as seen in the second photo, which is conspicuous in flight. The Streamer-tailed Tyrant has a white throat sharply outlined on the sides of the neck and the upper chest by a dark chestnut line.

There are illustrations in Sick, Page 478; and in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 41.

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