Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Cinereous Becard (Pachyramphus rufus) - HBW 9, p. 455
French: Bécarde cendrée
German: Graubekarde
Spanish: Anambé Cinéreo
Taxonomy: Muscicapa rufa Boddaert, 1783, Cayenne, French Guiana.
Genus formerly included with Tityra in the Cotingidae, but transferred to present family because of several shared, derived features of the skull and syrinx. Because both genera exhibit similarity to cotingids in many other features, some authors prefer to leave them in that family or to treat them as representing a separate family (Tityridae). Phylogenetic affinity of present species unknown. Has been suggested that it is closely related to, and perhaps conspecific with, P. spodiurus; the two appear to replace each other geographically and, arguably, constitute a zoogeographica.. View all taxonomy...
Genus formerly included with Tityra in the Cotingidae, but transferred to present family because of several shared, derived features of the skull and syrinx. Because both genera exhibit similarity to cotingids in many other features, some authors prefer to leave them in that family or to treat them as representing a separate family (Tityridae). Phylogenetic affinity of present species unknown. Has been suggested that it is closely related to, and perhaps conspecific with, P. spodiurus; the two appear to replace each other geographically and, arguably, constitute a zoogeographical species. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- rufus (Boddaert, 1783) - W Panama (both slopes of Canal area, lower and middle Bayano Valley, and Darién), Colombia (Magdalena and Guajira S to Valle de Cauca and N Huila, also E of Andes in at least Norte de Santander and Leticia), W & N Venezuela (E, generally N of R Orinoco, to Sucre, Monagas and N & E Bolívar), the Guianas, and Brazil (middle and lower Amazonia from Manacapurú and Tefé E to Amapá, NE Pará and Maranhão).
- juruanus Gyldenstolpe, 1951 - E Peru (Loreto) and W Amazonian Brazil (SW Amazonas).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male perched and looking around Locality Rancho Grande Biological Station, Maracay-Ocumare Road, Henri Pittier National Park, Aragua State, Venezuela (ssp rufus)
DAVID ASCANIO 31 July 2003 4 years ago 22 sec 4.7 -
A male perched in a bush, looking around and going away. Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp rufus)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 5 weeks ago 20 sec 4.7 -
A male moving in bushes. Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp rufus)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 5 weeks ago 21 sec 3.8 -
a male responding to playback at the ecotone forest-grassland near the mouth of Rio MAtiyure, at Puente Las Iguanas Locality Hato El Cedral, Apure State, Venezuela
DAVID ASCANIO 4 April 2010 1 year ago 49 sec 3.7 -
A brief view of a female flying away (slow motion at 5%). Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp rufus)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 5 weeks ago 19 sec 3 -
A male perched in a bare tree, flying away at the end of the clip. Locality Babunhol, Brokopondo District, Suriname (ssp rufus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 19 March 2011 40 weeks ago 20 sec 3
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A female
Locality Roraima State, Brazil
MARCELO CAMACHO 3 September 2011 35 weeks ago 4.1 -
Female adult of Cinereous Becard in hand
Locality French Guiana
maxcobigo 24 November 2009 2 years ago 4 -
A male displaying on a branch.
Locality Finca La Pomarrosa, Barlovento, Miranda State, Venezuela (ssp rufus)
Eduardo López 11 May 2008 3 years ago 3.3 -
A male perched in a bush.
Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp rufus)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 4 weeks ago 3.2 -
female on a branch
Locality Villeta, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 19 September 2010 1 year ago 2.8 -
A female perched in a bush.
Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp rufus)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 4 weeks ago 2.6
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Song. Locality Lago do Aracapuri, Amazonas State, Brazil
(ssp rufus)
Nick Athanas 27 January 2006 2 years ago 3
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