SHARP-BILLED CANASTERO Asthenes pyrrholeuca FAUNA PARAGUAY

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SHARP-BILLED CANASTERO Asthenes pyrrholeuca
Canasteros are spinetail-like furnarids which can be identified by their black and rufous tails. Sharp-billed Canastero is easily confused with Short-billed Canastero, though the confusion is more likely to arise in the similarity of the names than the similarity of the birds! Sharp-billed does not cock the tail and is much the more likely canastero in eastern Paraguay during the austral winter, when it visits us from the Southern Cone of South America.

FIGURE 1 - Adult ventral, Yacyreta, Departamento Misiones (Arne Lesterhuis August 2007).
FIGURE 2 - Same individual dorsal (Arne Lesterhuis August 2007).
FIGURE 3 - Same individual showing chin spot (Arne Lesterhuis August 2007).
FIGURE 4 - Same individual upperwing (Arne Lesterhuis August 2007).

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