Great Kiskadee

The great kiskadee is a species of passerine bird belonging to the family Tyrannidae, the only one in the monotypic genus Pitangus. It measures between 21 and 26 cm in length. The head is large, the wings long and the legs short. The bill is as long as the head and ends in a hook. The back and tail are greenish-brown. The head is black with two white stripes forming eyebrows; the throat is white. The breast and belly are bright yellow, and it has a hidden crown of the same colour. It is native to tropical America (the Neotropics), where it is widely distributed from the southern United States to central Argentina. It is very common in a variety of semi-open and open environments, rural and urban; it is less frequent in wooded regions, where it is more or less confined to the edges of lakes and rivers. It lives up to an altitude of 1,500 m above sea level. The International Union for Conservation of Nature considers the species to be of least concern.