Galapagos Species Database
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Tyrannus tyrannus
Tirano Norteño, Pitirre americano, Eastern kingbird
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Tyrannidae
Genus
Tyrannus
Species
tyrannus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Vagrant
Distribution: A sighting by M. Jones on Genovesa in May 1983 (Curry and Stoleson 1988), and a single bird seen on the northern end of Santa Fe on 9 June 1995.
- Coopmans, P. (1996) Eastern Kingbird sighting. Notícias de Galápagos 56: 4.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
- IUCN (2015) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 November 2015.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Tyrannus tyrannus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5194. Accessed 1 November 2026.