The lesser kiskadee (''Philohydor lictor'') is a species of passerine bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Philohydor''. It is found in Brazil, Bermuda,

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, Argentina,

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, Ecuador, French Guiana,

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, Panama, Peru,

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, Trinidad,

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, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are

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or tropical moist

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and

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s. The lesser kiskadee was described by the German naturalist and explorer Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 and given the

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''Lanius lictor''. The present genus ''Philohydor'' was introduced by the American ornithologist Wesley Edwin Lanyon in 1984. The word ''Philohydor'' is from Ancient Greek ''philos'' for "-loving" and ''hudōr'', "water". The

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'' lictor'' is the Latin word for a magistrate's bodyguard who carried out sentences. It is sometimes placed in the genus '' Pitangus'' with the great kiskadee. There are two subspecies: * ''P. l. panamensis'' ( Bangs & Penard, TE, 1918) – east Panama and north Colombia * ''P. l. lictor'' ( Lichtenstein, MHK, 1823) – east Colombia through the Guianas south to Bolivia, east and central Brazil The lesser kiskadee is in length and weighs around . It lives in eastern Panama and throughout the northern parts of South America, usually near water.

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Birds of Ecuador gallery at chandra.as.utexas.ed
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* * lesser kiskadee Birds of Panama Birds of Brazil Birds of Venezuela Birds of the Guianas Birds of the Amazon Basin Birds of the Atlantic Forest lesser kiskadee Birds of Colombia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Tyrannidae-stub

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