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.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE1905PH) Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2006).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE1906PH) Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June 2005).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE1907PH) Upperwing, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June 2005).
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Automolus leucopthalmus
1 (FPAVE1908RE) short call  recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007).
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