Birds · La Saladita, Guerrero

Thick-billed Kingbird

Tyrannus crassirostris

Spanish: Tirano pico grueso

Thick-billed Kingbird (Tyrannus crassirostris)
Photographed by robertomartinezangeles on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

The thick-billed kingbird (Tyrannus crassirostris) is a large bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. This bird breeds from southeastern Arizona, extreme southwestern New Mexico, and northern Sonora, (the Madrean sky islands), in the United States and Mexico, through western and western-coastal Mexico, south to western Guatemala.

TaxonomyAves › Passeriformes › Tyrannidae
Local records25 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records3,710 on iNaturalist
Most recent records2023 – 2026
Months of the 8 most recent records
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Recent local sightings

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Cite as: “Thick-billed Kingbird (Tyrannus crassirostris) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/tyrannus-crassirostris/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.