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Gray Kingbird

Tyrannus dominicensis · Family Tyrannidae

Tyrannus dominicensis

Family Tyrannidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
GBIF occurrence records
383,817
Countries and territories with records
50
Gray Kingbird
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About this species

This species has 383,817 occurrence records from 50 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Puerto Rico (29.2%), the United States (19.2%), Guadeloupe (6.4%), the Dominican Republic (6.3%) and Cuba (4.7%); together they account for 65.8% of the total. In Puerto Rico, this species accounts for 4.3% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Tyrannus dominicensis combines the genus name Tyrannus with the species epithet dominicensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Tyrannus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tyrannus tyrannus, Tyrannus melancholicus and Tyrannus verticalis.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 27th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 2.8 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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