Endangered
Juan Fernández Tit-Tyrant
Anairetes fernandezianus
Juan Fernández Tit-Tyrant is a perching bird in the family Tyrannidae (order Passeriformes) — Anairetes fernandezianus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The sexes have the same plumage, though females are slightly smaller than males and have a smaller crest. Adults have a black crest formed by elongated feathers in the center of the crown. The rest of their crown is blackish with a few whitish feathers. Their forehead and lores are black and extend through the eye, their supercilium is thin and white, and the rest of their face is white with black streaks.
The Juan Fernandez tit-tyrant is 12.5 cm (4.9 in) long.
Range and habitat
The Juan Fernandez tit-tyrant is found only on Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernández Islands about 670 km (362 nmi. 416 mi) off the central Chilean coast. It inhabits a variety of wooded and scrubby landscapes as well as secondary growth and gardens. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 900 m (3,000 ft).
It is endemic to the Juan Fernández Islands in the South Pacific Ocean off of Chile.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Its diet has not been detailed but is believed to be mostly insects. It forages in pairs or family groups, taking prey by gleaning while perched but also by briefly hovering and occasionally by a sally to take prey in midair.
The Juan Fernandez tit-tyrant apparently breeds between August and December. Nothing else is known about its breeding biology.
In crisis
Juan Fernández Tit-Tyrant is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Juan Fernández Tit-Tyrant, Wikidata item Q1269455. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
