Tyrannus tyrannus

(*Tyrannus tyrannus*)

## Behavior & Ecology

 Avg. group size:
Migration: 10 - 60 (max several thousand) individuals
## Habitats

### Major

* 1.4 Temperate forests
* 1.6 Tropical/subtropical moist lowland forests
* 3.4 Temperate shrublands
* 3.6 Tropical/subtropical moist shrublands

### Suitable

* 1.1 Boreal forests
* 1.9 Tropical/subtropical moist montane forests
* 3.3 Boreal shrublands
* 3.7 Tropical/subtropical alpine shrublands
* 5.1 Permanent rivers
* 5.5 Permanent lakes
* 14.1 Arable lands
* 14.2 Pasturelands
* 14.4 Rural gardens
* 14.5 Urban areas

## Distribution

### Ecozones

* Nearctic
* Neotropic

### Terrestrial Ecoregions

* NA0303 Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
* NA0401 Allegheny Highlands forests
* NA0402 Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
* NA0403 Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
* NA0404 Central U.S. hardwood forests
* NA0405 East Central Texas forests
* NA0406 Eastern forest-boreal transition
* NA0407 Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
* NA0408 Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
* NA0409 Mississippi lowland forests
* NA0410 New England-Acadian forests
* NA0411 Northeastern coastal forests
* NA0412 Ozark Mountain forests
* NA0413 Southeastern mixed forests
* NA0414 Southern Great Lakes forests
* NA0415 Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
* NA0416 Western Great Lakes forests
* NA0501 Alberta Mountain forests
* NA0502 Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
* NA0504 Atlantic coastal pine barrens
* NA0505 Blue Mountains forests
* NA0506 British Columbia mainland coastal forests
* NA0507 Cascade Mountains leeward forests
* NA0509 Central British Columbia Mountain forests
* NA0511 Colorado Rockies forests
* NA0513 Florida sand pine scrub
* NA0514 Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
* NA0517 Middle Atlantic coastal forests
* NA0518 North Central Rockies forests
* NA0521 Northern transitional alpine forests
* NA0522 Okanagan dry forests
* NA0523 Piney Woods forests
* NA0528 South Central Rockies forests
* NA0529 Southeastern conifer forests
* NA0602 Central Canadian Shield forests
* NA0605 Eastern Canadian forests
* NA0608 Mid-Continental Canadian forests
* NA0609 Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
* NA0610 Muskwa-Slave Lake forests
* NA0613 Northern Cordillera forests
* NA0616 Southern Hudson Bay taiga
* NA0701 Western Gulf Coastal grasslands
* NA0802 Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
* NA0803 Central and Southern mixed grasslands
* NA0804 Central forest-grasslands transition
* NA0805 Central tall grasslands
* NA0806 Edwards Plateau savanna
* NA0807 Flint Hills tall grasslands
* NA0808 Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
* NA0809 Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
* NA0810 Northern mixed grasslands
* NA0811 Northern short grasslands
* NA0812 Northern tall grasslands
* NA0813 Palouse grasslands
* NA0814 Texas blackland prairies
* NA0815 Western short grasslands
* NA1304 Colorado Plateau shrublands
* NA1305 Great Basin shrub steppe
* NA1309 Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
* NA1311 Tamaulipan matorral
* NA1312 Tamaulipan mezquital
* NA1313 Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
* NT0107 Caqueta moist forests
* NT0108 Catatumbo moist forests
* NT0109 Cauca Valley montane forests
* NT0111 Central American Atlantic moist forests
* NT0112 Central American montane forests
* NT0113 Chiapas montane forests
* NT0114 Chimalapas montane forests
* NT0115 Chocó-Darién moist forests
* NT0117 Cordillera La Costa montane forests
* NT0118 Cordillera Oriental montane forests
* NT0119 Costa Rican seasonal moist forests
* NT0120 Cuban moist forests
* NT0121 Eastern Cordillera real montane forests
* NT0122 Eastern Panamanian montane forests
* NT0128 Iquitos várzea
* NT0129 Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests
* NT0130 Isthmian-Pacific moist forests
* NT0131 Jamaican moist forests
* NT0132 Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests
* NT0133 Juruá-Purus moist forests
* NT0135 Madeira-Tapajós moist forests
* NT0136 Magdalena Valley montane forests
* NT0137 Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
* NT0140 Mato Grosso seasonal forests
* NT0141 Monte Alegre várzea
* NT0142 Napo moist forests
* NT0143 Negro-Branco moist forests
* NT0145 Northwestern Andean montane forests
* NT0146 Oaxacan montane forests
* NT0148 Pantanos de Centla
* NT0149 Guianan Freshwater swamp forests
* NT0150 Alto Paraná Atlantic forests
* NT0154 Petén-Veracruz moist forests
* NT0156 Purus várzea
* NT0157 Purus-Madeira moist forests
* NT0158 Rio Negro campinarana
* NT0159 Santa Marta montane forests
* NT0161 Sierra de los Tuxtlas
* NT0162 Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest
* NT0163 Solimões-Japurá moist forest
* NT0164 South Florida rocklands
* NT0165 Southern Andean Yungas
* NT0166 Southwest Amazon moist forests
* NT0167 Talamancan montane forests
* NT0174 Ucayali moist forests
* NT0175 Venezuelan Andes montane forests
* NT0176 Veracruz moist forests
* NT0177 Veracruz montane forests
* NT0181 Yucatán moist forests
* NT0201 Apure-Villavicencio dry forests
* NT0206 Bolivian montane dry forests
* NT0207 Cauca Valley dry forests
* NT0209 Central American dry forests
* NT0211 Chiapas Depression dry forests
* NT0212 Chiquitano dry forests
* NT0213 Cuban dry forests
* NT0218 Jamaican dry forests
* NT0219 Lara-Falcón dry forests
* NT0221 Magdalena Valley dry forests
* NT0222 Maracaibo dry forests
* NT0224 Panamanian dry forests
* NT0225 Patía Valley dry forests
* NT0229 Sinú Valley dry forests
* NT0233 Veracruz dry forests
* NT0235 Yucatán dry forests
* NT0301 Bahamian pine mosaic
* NT0302 Belizean pine forests
* NT0303 Central American pine-oak forests
* NT0304 Cuban pine forests
* NT0306 Miskito pine forests
* NT0308 Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests
* NT0309 Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests
* NT0701 Dry Chaco
* NT0702 Beni savanna
* NT0704 Cerrado
* NT0708 Humid Chaco
* NT0709 Llanos
* NT0902 Cuban wetlands
* NT0904 Everglades
* NT0907 Pantanal
* NT0908 Paraná flooded savanna
* NT0909 Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna
* NT1002 Central Andean puna
* NT1005 Cordillera de Merida páramo
* NT1006 Northern Andean páramo
* NT1306 Cuban cactus scrub
* NT1308 Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
* NT1312 Motagua Valley thornscrub
* NT1313 Paraguana xeric scrub
* NT1316 Tehuacán Valley matorral
* NT1401 Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves
* NT1402 Bahamoan-Antillean mangroves
* NT1403 Mesoamerican Gulf-Caribbean mangroves
* NT1405 South American Pacific mangroves
* NT1407 Southern Mesoamerican Pacific mangroves