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MOTTLE-CHEEKED TYRANNULET Phylloscartes ventralis
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The Mottle-cheeked is one of those frustrating little greenish forest flycatchers with a yellow belly. They are active, hard to observe and not particularly mottle-cheeked!! Most of their foraging is done by flycatcher-gleaning, a technical term for flying and plucking a prey item from vegetation.
FIGURE 1 - Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2006).
FIGURE 2 - Same individual (Paul Smith August 2006).
FIGURE 3 - Adult feeding young at nest, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2006).
VIDEO - Adults feeding young at nest, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2006).
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To hear the call of this species hold the mouse over the tab above but do not click the button! It may take a few seconds to download but the button will turn pink when the call is ready to play. 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.
contact call recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
