Masked tityra
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Masked tityra
| image = Masked Tityra, Panama - Tim Lenz.jpg
| image_caption = Male
| image2 = Tityra semifasciata -Brazil-8.jpg
| image2_caption = Female
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Tityra
| species = semifasciata
| authority = (Spix, 1825)
| synonyms =
| range_map = Tityra semifasciata map.svg
}}
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, where it is now placed by the South American Classification Committee.
It is found in forest and woodland from Mexico, through Central America, to northwestern and central South America (as far south as Paraguay).
Measuring {{convert|20|cm|in|abbr=on}}, 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.
Masked tityra (Tityra semifasciata personata) male Copan.jpg|T. s. personata
Copan, Honduras
Masked Tityra 3.jpg|T. s. costaricensis
Turrialba, Costa Rica
References
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- {{cite web|url=http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop313.html |title=Proposal (#313) to South American Classification Committee: Adopt the Family Tityridae |publisher=South American Classification Committee |year=2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508083837/http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop313.html |archive-date=2008-05-08 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Garrigues |first1=Richard |last2=Dean |first2=Robert |date=2007 |title=The Birds of Costa Rica |location=Ithaca |publisher=Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press |page=216 |isbn=978-0-8014-7373-9 }}
}}
Further reading
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- {{ cite book | last=Skutch | first=Alexander F. | author-link=Alexander Skutch | date=1969 | chapter=Masked tityra | title=Life Histories of Central American Birds III: Families Cotingidae, Pipridae, Formicariidae, Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, and Picidae | series=Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 35 | location=Berkeley, California | publisher=Cooper Ornithological Society | chapter-url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/pca/pca_035.pdf#page=20 | pages=20–42 | ref=none }}
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External links
- {{InternetBirdCollection|masked-tityra-tityra-semifasciata|Masked tityra}}
- {{VIREO|Masked+tityra}}
- {{NeotropicalBirds|mastit1|Masked tityra}}
- {{IUCN_Map|22700689/139915723|Tityra semifasciata}}
{{Commons category-inline|Tityra semifasciata}}
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Category:Birds of Central America
Category:Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula
Category:Birds of Southern Amazonia
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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