Tityra cayana
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The black-tailed tityra (Tityra cayana) is a medium-sized passerine bird of tropical South America. The tityras have been placed in the cotinga or the tyrant flycatcher families (Cotingidae and Tyrannidae) by various authors. But the weight of evidence strongly suggest they and their closest relatives are better separated as Tityridae; the AOU for example advocates this separation.
In 1760, the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the black-tailed tityra in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Cayenne in French Guiana. He used the French name La pie-griesche gris de Cayenne and the Latin name Lanius Cayanensis cinereus. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition in 1766, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the black-tailed tityra. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Lanius cayanus and cited Brisson's work. The species is now placed in the genus... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 3 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 5 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 10 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 11 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 12 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 13 | Henri Pittier National Park | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 14 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 15 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 16 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 17 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 18 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Black-tailed Tityra sighting in São Paulo on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 291st most-seen of the 353 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Black-tailed Tityra in São Paulo on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-tailed Tityra sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only São Paulo, in our data
São Paulo is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-tailed Tityra sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-tailed Tityra is recorded against all the birds logged in São Paulo (14 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
