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Masked Tityra

Tityra semifasciata · Family Cotingidae

Tityra semifasciata

Family Cotingidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Cotingidae
GBIF occurrence records
363,644
Countries and territories with records
20
Masked Tityra
Andy Morffew from Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, UK · Masked Tityra (16409452250).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Andy Morffew from Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Tityra_semifasciata_-_Masked_Tityra_XC251638.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 363,644 occurrence records from 20 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (29%), Mexico (18.9%), Belize (12.6%), Panama (8%) and Guatemala (6%); together they account for 74.6% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Tityra semifasciata combines the genus name Tityra with the species epithet semifasciata. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Tityra; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tityra inquisitor and Tityra cayana.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 102 species of the family Cotingidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 17.8 times the family average (20,468). The family Cotingidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the order Passeriformes

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