Reed tyrant [3] ( lat. Arundinicola leucocephala ) is a species of passerine birds from the family of tyrannous (Tyrannidae), distinguished into a monotypic genus of reed tyrants ( Arundinicola ). This tyrann is spread from the north and east of Colombia and north and central Venezuela east to Trinidad and Guiana ; in some places it is found in the east of Ecuador , northeast of Peru , in the north and east of Bolivia , in the north of Argentina , in Paraguay and southeast of Brazil [1] .
| Reed Tyrann |
Male |
| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| Suborder : | Screaming passerines |
| Infrastructure : | Tyrannides |
| Rod: | Reed Tyrants ( Arundinicola Orbigny , 1840 ) |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Arundinicola leucocephala ( Linnaeus , 1764 ) |
| Synonyms |
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- Pipra leucocephala Linnaeus, 1764 [1]
- Fluvicola leucocephala [2]
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| Security status |
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Least concernIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22700291 |
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Content
The adult reed tyrant reaches 12.7 cm in length and weighs 15 g. The males are completely black-brown, except for the relatively large white head and yellowish mandible. In females, the upper body and wings are brown, the tail is black. The lower part of the body, the sides of the head and the front of the scallop are off-white. These birds are quite quiet, but their cry is a sharp "Sedik."
This species is found in swampy savannas, on the swamps and along the edges of mangrove swamps. White-headed reed tyrants wait for prey on a low open perch among the marsh vegetation or on a branch near the water, taking off from time to time in pursuit of insects , their main food, and then returning to their places. Often they seize insects from plants, but more often they catch them in the air or even in shallow water [4] </ ref>.
The nest is a feather-lined oval ball of grass and other plant material, the entrance is located on the side. The nest is built at the end of a branch near the water or above it. A typical clutch is two or three cream-white eggs with brown spots. Both parents incubate eggs one by one. Cow corpios often parasitize in the nest.
IUCN does not consider this species to be at risk. Separate populations, however, may disappear due to deteriorating habitat conditions [5] .
