Cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant

Cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Muscisaxicola
Species: M. capistratus
Binomial name
Muscisaxicola capistratus
(Burmeister, 1860)

The cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant (Muscisaxicola capistratus) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the tyrant flycatchers.

It is found in western Argentina, eastern Andean Chile, southwest Bolivia, and southern Peru. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.

The cinnamon-bellied ground tyrant breeds in extreme southern Argentina and Chile, and northern Tierra del Fuego, and migrates north in the austral winter.

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