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SWAINSON´S MYIARCHUS Myiarchus swainsoni
On the list of birds which give birdwatchers most headaches, the Myiarchus flycatchers are second only to the Elaenias! Fortunately the three Paraguayan species have very different vocalisations from each other, a major step towards getting their identity right!.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE900PH) Adult ssp. ferocior presumably, Pirahú, Departamento Presidente Hayes (Paul Smith October 2007).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE901PH) Same individual as (FPAVE900PH) ventral (Paul Smith October 2007).
VIDEO - (FPAVE902VI) Same individual as (FPAVE901PH - FPAVE902PH) (Paul Smith October 2007).
The Myiarchus are a challenging group of which Swainson´s can be distinguished by its mostly pink lower mandible.
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Myiarchus swainsoni
1 (FPAVE903RE) Song ssp. swainsoni recorded Estancia Golondrina, Departamento Canindeyú (Myriam Velázquez October 2000).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.
