Gray Kingbird
Aripo Savanna
18Feb2018
A large, conspicuous and boisterous
tyrant flycatcher...has colonized in
mainland Florida.
Tyrannus dominicensis
(L 9.1" Wt 1.3-1.8 oz)
Tyrannus means tyrant;
domininicensis refers to the
island republic in the West
Indies.
More than 200 North American bird
species winter in Central American
coastal forests and the Yucatan and
almost as many in the Caribbean.
Roughly three dozen species winter in
the Amazon.
(Scott Weidensaul)
Waller Field
Arima
16Feb2018
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