Muscisaxicola juninensis
Silhouette: Emily Willoughby · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The puna ground tyrant (Muscisaxicola juninensis) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The puna ground-tyrant is monotypic. The authors of an early twentieth century publication suggested possibly treating M. juninensis (then called the Junin ground-tyrant) as a subspecies of the white-browed ground tyrant (M. albilora).
The puna ground tyrant is 16 to 16.5 cm (6.3 to 6.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dull cinnamon crown, a white spot above their lores, a faint pale supercilium, and a pale broken eye-ring on an otherwise pale brownish gray face. Their upperparts are mostly pale brownish gray with a black lower rump. Their wings are dusky gray. Their tail is black with white edges on the outer webs of the outermost feathers. Their throat and belly are whitish and their breast pale gray. They have a dark iris, a black bill, and black legs and feet. Juveniles have pale cinnamon edges on the wing coverts and buffy underparts.
The puna ground tyrant is found along the Andes from Ancash Department in... Wikipedia →
Call0:25
Bolivia · 2013
© Dan Lane · XC149140 · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report a Puna Ground-Tyrant sighting in Lauca National Park on a given day, based on 680 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 9th most-seen of the 112 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–February and July
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Puna Ground-Tyrant in Lauca National Park on a given day, against about 40% in August and September, the lowest months. Those are among Lauca National Park's wettest months, with about 100 mm of rain a month against almost none in May.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Puna Ground-Tyrant 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 Lauca National Park, in our data
Lauca National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Puna Ground-Tyrant sightings: about 60% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Muscisaxicola
The closest relatives of the Puna Ground-Tyrant that you can see in Lauca National Park (genus Muscisaxicola, Ground-Tyrants) are White-fronted Ground-Tyrant (about 60%), Rufous-naped Ground-Tyrant (about 20%) and Spot-billed Ground-Tyrant (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Puna Ground-Tyrant is recorded against all the birds logged in Lauca National Park (680 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
