Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Tropical Kingbird photographed by Henry Haas
Puerto Morelos · December 27, 2025

When to look

Reported most in January, across 1.9M open records.

Records by month. January, 209,922 records. February, 182,635 records. March, 176,945 records. April, 130,897 records. May, 148,900 records. June, 98,741 records. July, 115,635 records. August, 112,482 records. September, 120,335 records. October, 196,570 records. November, 182,409 records. December, 184,588 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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