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Cattle Tyrant
Machetornis rixosa · Family Tyrannidae
Machetornis rixosa
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 302,553
- Countries and territories with records
- 17
About this species
This species has 302,553 occurrence records from 17 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Argentina (34.8%), Brazil (27.1%), Colombia (20.5%), Venezuela (5.6%) and Uruguay (5.5%); together they account for 93.4% of the total. In Argentina, this species accounts for 0.69% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Machetornis rixosa combines the genus name Machetornis with the species epithet rixosa. It is the only species of the genus Machetornis in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 35th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 2.2 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.