Streamer-tailed tyrant

Streamer-tailed tyrant
In Piraju, São Paulo, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Gubernetes
Such, 1825
Species: G. yetapa
Binomial name
Gubernetes yetapa
(Vieillot, 1818)

The streamer-tailed tyrant (Gubernetes yetapa) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family, the only one in the genus Gubernetes.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

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