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GRASSLAND SPARROW Ammodramus humeralis
The distant "seee-saaaawing" call of the little Grassland Sparrow is one of the evocative sounds of the Paraguayan countryside, even if you haven´t yet worked out who the singer is! For the most part all you will see of him is a flutter of wings as a brownish-grey bird appears from under your feet, flies a short distance and disappears again. You see despite his penchant for singing the Grassland Sparrow suffers from stage fright, and he prefers to scuttle about mouse-like on the ground, unobtrusively going about his business.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE2415PH) Adult dorsal carrying food, Arroyos and Esteros, Departamento Cordillera (Frank Fragano 2006).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE2416PH) Adult, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE2416PH) Adult singing, Coronel Bogado, Departamento Itapúa (Clyde Morris November 2008).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE2417PH) Adult, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September 2005).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE2418PH) Adult head detail, Estancia Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (John T. Smit January 2011  http://science.naturalis.nl/smitj).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE2419PH) Same individual as (FPAVE2418PH) head frontal (John T. Smit January 2011  http://science.naturalis.nl/smitj).
FIGURE 7 - (FPAVE2420PH) Same individual as (FPAVE2417PH) upperwing (Paul Smith September 2005).
FIGURE 8 - (FPAVE2421PH) Nestling, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 9 - (FPAVE2422PH) Nest with young, Estancia Kanguery, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007).
FIGURE 10 - (FPAVE2423PH) Nest with eggs, Estancia Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (Paul Smith November 2005).
VIDEO - (FPAVE2424VI) Adult, Arroyo Clementina, Departamento San Pedro (Paul Smith September 2006).
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Ammodramus humeralis
1 (FPAVE2425RE) song  recorded Estancia Kanguery, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007).
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.