Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Bearded Tachuri (Polystictus pectoralis) - HBW 9, p. 288
French: Tyranneau barbu
German: Streifenkinn-Grastyrann
Spanish: Tachurí Barbado
Taxonomy: Sylvia pectoralis Vieillot, 1817, Paraguay.
Was for long treated in a separate genus, Habrura; relationship with P. superciliaris needs confirmation. Race bogotensis (possibly extinct) probably merits rank of full species. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- bogotensis (Chapman, 1915) - very local in temperate zone in Cundinimarca (savannas of Bogotá) and Valle (upper Dagua Valley), in Colombia.
- brevipennis (Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902) - E Colombia, S Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and N Brazil (Roraima, Amapá, W Pará).
- pectoralis (Vieillot, 1817) - E Bolivia (Santa Cruz), S Brazil (locally from Mato Grosso S to Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, N Argentina (S to Mendoza, La Pampa and Buenos Aires) and Uruguay.
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
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A bird perched on canes Locality Itirapina, São Paulo State, Brazil (ssp pectoralis)
Josep del Hoyo 7 January 2005 4 years ago 37 sec 3.8 -
A bird perched and flying away Locality Itirapina, São Paulo State, Brazil (ssp pectoralis)
Josep del Hoyo 7 January 2005 4 years ago 16 sec 3.6 -
A female perched on the top of a Eryingium sp, opening and closing its wings rapidly. Locality Quebracho, Paysandú Department, Uruguay (ssp pectoralis )
Nacho Areta 15 January 2007 3 years ago 17 sec 2
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Pampa tiny - eating female giving a moth, one of their three chicks, who grew up alongside a rural road.
Locality Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Juan Maria Raggio 1 March 2008 1 year ago 4.6 -
Perdices-Entre Rios-Argentina
Locality Entre Ríos Province, Argentina
Silvia Vitale 9 December 2006 2 years ago 3
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Song while displaying Locality Itirapina, São Paulo State, Brazil
(ssp pectoralis)
Jeremy Minns 20 December 2002 1 year ago 0
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