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Photographs on this web-site were taken by Paul Smith, Hemme Batjes, Regis Nossent,
Alberto Esquivel, Arne Lesterhuis, José Luis Cartes, Rebecca Zarza and Hugo del Castillo and are used with their permission.
SPECTACLED TYRANT Hymenops perspicillatus
Many strange birds inhabit the Paraguayan marshlands, but perhaps none are so strange as the Spectacled Tyrant. Males (Fig 1-2) are wholly black with eyecatching white wings and fleshy lobes around the eye - their spectacles! Females (Fig 3-4) are quite different, looking brown and streaky, but really impressing when they flit into the air to reveal their bright rufous wings. Spectacled Tyrants are unique, semi-terrestrial flycatchers with long legs. They are migrants, exhibiting a staggered migration pattern, with females (or female-plumaged birds) arriving in Paraguay several months before the males.
FIGURE 1 - Adult male, location unknown (Alberto Esquivel undated).
FIGURE 2 - Adult male, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 3 - Adult female, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 4 - Immature, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August).
FIGURE 5 - Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith August).
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