#1297 · 🐦 birds

Tropical Kingbird

🇳🇱 Tropische Koningstiran ·Tyrannus melancholicus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Esteban Poveda · CC BY 4.0
3. © Mario Urrutia · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Paolo Trujillo · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gustavo Aceves Herrera · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Nick Tepper · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Santa Maria, RS, Brasil:© Patrícia Nicoloso · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. União dos Palmares - AL, Brasil:© eduardovieira17 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Palmhurst, TX, USA:© Jack Cochran · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 80200 Departamento de San José, Uruguay:© Gonzalo Romero · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The tropical kingbird ( Tyrannus melancholicus ) is a large tyrant flycatcher. This bird breeds from southern Arizona and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States through Central America, South America as far as south as central Argentina and eastern Peru, and on Trinidad and Tobago. Birds from the northernmost and southern breeding areas migrate to warmer parts of the range after breeding.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 65,440iNaturalist observations
weight 37 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
65,440 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 37 g.
Scientifically named by Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1819 (207 years ago).