Black-tailed Tityra Tityra cayana Scientific name definitions

The Black-tailed Tityra is a distinctive resident of open forest near rivers as well as gallery forest and plantations from Venezuela south through the Amazon to Northern Argentina. Males have black on the crown that descends below the eye, a bare, rosy red facial-skin patch, pale-silver upperparts, white underparts, and black on the tail and wings. Females have a dusky brownish crown, brownish-gray upperparts with coarse, dark streaks, and dusky streaking on a whitish breast. It is usually found in pairs or in loosely connected groups. When foraging, individuals perch high on a bare limb and take fruit and insects by perch-gleaning or hover-gleaning.