Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Hirundinea ferruginea Phylum Chordata Order Passerine | Family Tyrannidae Rank Species Higher classification Hirundinea | |
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Genus Hirundinea
Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 Similar Yellow tyrannulet, Shear‑tailed grey tyrant, Euler's flycatcher, Phyllomyias, Myiophobus | ||
Cliff flycatcher
The cliff flycatcher (Hirundinea ferruginea) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. The cliff flycatcher is the only species in the genus Hirundinea after the swallow flycatcher was merged herein as subspecies Hirundinea ferruginea bellicosa.
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Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
Cliff flycatcher hirundinea ferruginea
Range
The cliff flycatcher is only found east of the Andes cordillera, and therefore is not found in Chile. All other South American countries are represented. In the Amazon Basin, it surrounds the basin in the foothills, and highest elevations at tributaries' headwaters; it ranges down to central Argentina west of the Pampas, and east of the Pampas to southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay; also southeast of the Amazon Basin in the Brazilian Highlands, to the Atlantic and south Atlantic coast of Brazil, about an 8000 km stretch of coastline.
