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title: "Black-tailed Tityra"
description: "Tityra cayana — Uccelli. The black-tailed tityra (Tityra cayana) is a medium-sized passerine bird of tropical South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/black-tailed-tityra
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black-tailed Tityra

> Tityra cayana — Uccelli. The black-tailed tityra (Tityra cayana) is a medium-sized passerine bird of tropical South America.

- Scientific name: *Tityra cayana*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `jungle` (Giungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 1200
- Wikidata: [Q903929](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q903929)
- iNaturalist taxon: [8830](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8830)

## Names

- en: Black-tailed Tityra
- de: Schwarzschwanztityra
- es: Tueré grande
- fr: Tityre gris
- nl: Zwartstaarttityra
- pt: Anambé-branco-de-rabo-preto
- pl: Bekarda czarnosterna

## Countries with the most observations

BR (479), EC (156), CO (149), PE (91), AR (71), BO (70), GF (55), TT (35), GY (13), SR (13), VE (4)

## Summary

The black-tailed tityra (Tityra cayana) is a medium-sized passerine bird of tropical South America. The tityras have been placed in the cotinga or the tyrant flycatcher families (Cotingidae and Tyrannidae) by various authors. But the weight of evidence strongly suggest they and their closest relatives are better separated as Tityridae; the AOU for example advocates this separation.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_tityra

## Photo

![Black-tailed Tityra](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-tailed-tityra/medium.jpg)

Photo: Frank Thomas Sautter · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/328195732

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-tailed-tityra?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).