Black-tailed Tityra Gallery

Tityra cayana


The Birds of the World website provides this introductory information about the Black-tailed Tityra:  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.

I saw and photographed my first Black-tailed Tityra on the morning of August 18, 2023 in the Amazon Basin Region of Brazil.  Our small group with Jeff Parker Tours was in an observation tower at a private fazenda in the Amazon Basin watching a Harpy Eagle nest when we spotted a Black-tailed Tityra in the nearby canopy.  For a more detailed description of this day, look here at my blog post on my Brazil trip.  Here are some of my photos of this colorful bird. 

BLACK-TAILED TITYRA THAT WE WATCHED WHILE AT THE HARPY EAGLE NEST, AUGUST 18, 2023.
ANOTHER LOOK AT THE BLACK-TAILED TITYRA WE WATCHED ON AUGUST 18, 2023.