The masked tityra (Tityra semifasciata) is a medium-sized passerine bird. It has traditionally been placed in the cotinga or the tyrant flycatcher family, but evidence strongly suggests that it is better placed in Tityridae,[2] where it is now placed by the South American Classification Committee.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Tityridae |
| Genus: | Tityra |
| Species: | T. semifasciata
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| Tityra semifasciata (Spix, 1825)
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It is found in forest and woodland from Mexico, through Central America, to northwestern and central South America (as far south as Paraguay).
Measuring 20 cm (7.9 in),[3] it has a black-and-whitish plumage, and a distinct red eye-ring and base of the bill. The mask is black in the male, while it is brownish or greyish in the female. The male resembles the black-tailed tityra, but can be separated by its smaller black face mask (does not include the nape) and white tail-tip.
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T. s. personata
Copan, Honduras -
T. s. costaricensis
Turrialba, Costa Rica
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References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Tityra semifasciata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22700689A130264515. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22700689A130264515.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Proposal (#313) to South American Classification Committee: Adopt the Family Tityridae". South American Classification Committee. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-05-08.
- ^ Garrigues, Richard; Dean, Robert (2007). The Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9.
Further reading
edit- Skutch, Alexander F. (1969). "Masked tityra" (PDF). Life Histories of Central American Birds III: Families Cotingidae, Pipridae, Formicariidae, Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, and Picidae. Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 35. Berkeley, California: Cooper Ornithological Society. pp. 20–42.
External links
edit- "Masked tityra media". Internet Bird Collection.
- Masked tityra photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Masked tityra species account at Neotropical Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Interactive range map of Tityra semifasciata at IUCN Red List maps
Media related to Tityra semifasciata at Wikimedia Commons