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Many-colored Rush Tyrant
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Many-colored Rush Tyrant
Tachuris rubrigastra
The many-colored rush tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra) or many-coloured rush tyrant, is a small passerine bird of South America belonging to the tyrant flycatcher family, Tyrannidae. It is the only member of the genus Tachuris and is sometimes placed in a separate monotypic family. It inhabits marshland and reedbeds around lakes and rivers. It is particularly associated with stands of Scirpus. The nest is built among plant stems.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 17174.