Black-backed Water Tyrant (Fluvicola albiventer)
About the Black-backed Water Tyrant
The black-backed water tyrant (Fluvicola albiventer) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. The black-backed water tyrant was formally described in 1825 as Muscicapa albiventer, erroneously placing it in the Old World flycatcher family. For much of the twentieth century it was treated as a subspecies of the pied water tyrant (F. pica). It now shares genus Fluvicola with the pied water tyrant and the masked water tyrant (F. nengeta). The black-backed water tyrant is monotypic.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 32 recordings for this species: 7 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Masked Water TyrantFluvicola nengetarecording
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