Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Cock-tailed Tyrant
Alectrurus tricolor
- langka
- 30 km/h
- Rentan
The male's tail is a bizarre horizontal fan used only for display flights over grassland. Tricolor: black, white, and gray.
- Populasi
- 2,000-8,000 mature individuals, decreasing
- Habitat
- Large, tall, open, undisturbed native grasslands, including campo, cerrado, and humid savanna, typically below 1,100-1,300 m elevation; avoids frequently burned areas and areas dominated by invasive/exotic grasses
- Fakta menarik
- The male Cock-tailed Tyrant has a dramatically elongated, upward-curving black tail with feathers up to about 7 cm long (roughly as long as its body) that he raises like a rooster's tail during display flights over the grassland.
- Sebaran
- Disjunct South American distribution: north and eastern Bolivia (especially Beni), and a separate population from eastern Paraguay into Brazil (southern/central-western Mato Grosso east to Minas Gerais and south to Paraná); formerly northeastern Argentina, not recorded since 1979 and now presumed/possibly extinct there
- Makanan
- Arthropods (mainly insects), taken from vegetation while perched, while hovering, or by hawking prey in mid-air
- Ukuran
- 0,12 m
- Masa hidup
- 2,4 tahun
