Black-backed Water Tyrant
A species of Water Tyrants Scientific name : Fluvicola albiventer Genus : Water Tyrants
Black-backed Water Tyrant, A species of Water Tyrants
Botanical name: Fluvicola albiventer
Genus: Water Tyrants
Content
Description General Info
Photo By Nikolaj Mølgaard Thomsen 
Description
The black-backed water tyrant (Fluvicola albiventer) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is one of three species in the genus Fluvicola. It is found in South America in central and northeastern Brazil and south through Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay; also eastern Peru. Its natural habitat is swamps. This tyrant is a striking bright-white and black bird. 
Size
14 cm
Nest Placement
Shrub
Feeding Habits
Black-backed Water Tyrant primarily consumes insects, foraging both on the ground and on vegetation. They exhibit bold and sometimes inquisitive behavior, often seen cocking and fanning their tails. Black-backed Water Tyrant hunts with a fast and low flight.
Habitat
The black-backed Water Tyrant primarily inhabits marshes, often with adjacent shrubby areas, and is found around rivers and oxbow lakes. These birds favor environments associated with water bodies in broader tropical regions, where the conditions support their foraging and nesting requirements.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Feeding Habits
Bird food type
Distribution Area
The black-backed water tyrant is a resident breeder in the southeast Amazon Basin, a range that continues east through the Caatinga to the Brazil coast, and only inland, south through the Cerrado to eastern Bolivia, central and western Paraguay, and northern Argentina, and ending at the South Atlantic coast, ranging into only southern Uruguay. The northern range-limit in the Amazon Basin is the Amazon River strip; in the southwestern Amazon Basin, into Amazonian eastern Peru and northern Bolivia, the black-backed water tyrant is a migrating non-breeder. In Peru, the north-flowing Ucayali River is its western limit, and at the Amazon River's outlet in the northeast, the bird ranges into southern portions of Brazil's Amapá state.
Photo By Nikolaj Mølgaard Thomsen 
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Chordates Class
Birds Order
Perching birds Family
Tyrant flycatchers Genus
Water Tyrants Species
Black-backed Water Tyrant 
Download Picture Bird
Identify any bird by photo or sound in seconds
Identify any bird by photo or sound in seconds
