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Tropical kingbird
Tyrannus melancholicus · Family Tyrannidae
Tyrannus melancholicus
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,275,073
- Countries and territories with records
- 35
About this species
This species has 2,275,073 occurrence records from 35 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (19%), Costa Rica (16.9%), Brazil (11.5%), Mexico (9.6%) and Panama (6.9%); together they account for 63.9% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 1.6% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tyrannus melancholicus combines the genus name Tyrannus with the species epithet melancholicus. 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 verticalis and Tyrannus vociferans.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 16.5 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.