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Piratic Flycatcher
Legatus leucophaius · Family Tyrannidae
Legatus leucophaius
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 234,160
- Countries and territories with records
- 23
About this species
This species has 234,160 occurrence records from 23 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (29.3%), Colombia (23.2%), Brazil (13.8%), Panama (7.9%) and Ecuador (5%); together they account for 79.3% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.26% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Legatus leucophaius combines the genus name Legatus with the species epithet leucophaius. It is the only species of the genus Legatus in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 38th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 1.7 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.