WHITE-EYED FOLIAGE-GLEANER Automolus leucophthalmus ATLANTIC FOREST
Despite being the owner of a loud, far-carrying and gratingly annoying voice, the White-eyed Foliage-gleaner is hard to see. This is because he keeps to the densest areas of the forest undergrowth, where he skulks about searching for insects and invertebrates in the leaf litter, his dull brownish plumage affording him excellent camouflage. Strangely this species nests in a hole in the ground.
FIGURE 1 - Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August).
FIGURE 2 - Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June).
FIGURE 3 - Upperwing, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June).
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Automolus leucopthalmus short call recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007).
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