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Eastern kingbird
Tyrannus tyrannus · Family Tyrannidae
Tyrannus tyrannus
Family Tyrannidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 4,145,189
- Countries and territories with records
- 40
About this species
This species has 4,145,189 occurrence records from 40 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (81.5%) and Canada (16.8%); together they account for 98.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tyrannus tyrannus combines the genus name Tyrannus with the species epithet tyrannus. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Tyrannus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tyrannus melancholicus, Tyrannus verticalis and Tyrannus vociferans.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 423 species of the family Tyrannidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sayornis phoebe. Its record count is 30.1 times the family average (137,762). The family Tyrannidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.