Choco Sirystes (Sirystes albogriseus)
About the Choco Sirystes
The Choco sirystes (Sirystes albogriseus), formerly known as the western sirystes, is a species of passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. The Choco sirystes was formally described in 1863 by the American amateur ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence under the binomial name Lipaugus albogriseus, mistakenly placing it with the cotingas. Lawrence did not mention a type locality but Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman, in their book Biologia Centrali-Americana, reported that the specimen had come from "Lion Hill". This was a railway station in the Panama Canal Zone that was submerged when the Gatun Lake was created. It was later moved into genus Sirystes that was introduced in 1860 by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis and Ferdinand Heine.
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1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama · xeno-canto lists 13 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.