Shear-tailed grey tyrant

Shear-tailed grey tyrant
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Muscipipra
Lesson, 1831
Species: M. vetula
Binomial name
Muscipipra vetula
(Lichtenstein, 1823)

The shear-tailed grey tyrant (Muscipipra vetula) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, in the monotypic genus Muscipipra.[2] It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay,[1] where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.[3]

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