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Great Kiskadee

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The Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) is a passerine bird. It is a large tyrant flycatcher; it breeds in open woodland with some tall trees, including cultivation and around human habitation, from the Lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas and northern Mexico south to Uruguay, but also it occurs all over Brazil (specially the central and south-southeastern regions), Paraguay and central Argentina, the Guyana coastline, and on Trinidad. It was introduced to Bermuda in 1957, and to Tobago in about 1970. It is almost omnivorous, and hunts like a shrike or flycatcher, waiting on an open perch high in a tree to sally out to catch insects in flight. For more details from Wikipedia about the Great Kiskadee please see this page here.

Great Kiskadee

This Great Kiskadee image was taken along the Pipeline Road.

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