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DUSKY-TAILED ANTBIRD Drymophila malura ATLANTIC FOREST
You can stand there for hours at the edge of a dense patch of Chusquea bamboo wondering what the hell is producing that increasingly irritating bouncing ball call. You can see the branches moving as the bird bobs along, but tying to get a good look is driving you insane! The Dusky-tailed Antbird is a common bird but so difficult to see that you would never believe it. They are not shy, on odd occasions I have had birds go about their business happily, oblivious to my presence less than a metre away, but unfortunately those occasions are all too infrequent!
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE1826PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE1827PH) Same individual head detail (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE1828PH) Adult male lacking longest tail feathers upperwing, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith February 2007).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE1829PH) Same individual as (FPAVE1826PH-FPAVE1827PH)  underwing (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE1830PH) Adult male ventral, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE1831PH) Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 7 - (FPAVE1832PH) Same individual head detail (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 8 - (FPAVE1833PH) Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith February 2007).
VIDEO - (FPAVE1834VI) Pair, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
Drymophila malura
1 (FPAVE1835RE) bouncing ball song recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
2 (FPAVE1836RE) jerritt call recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
3 (FPAVE1837RE) nasal call recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
4 (FPAVE1838RE) bouncing ball song recorded Ocampos, Departamento Itapúa (Myriam Velázquez October 2001).
5 (FPAVE1839RE) nasal call recorded Ocampos, Departamento Itapúa (Myriam Velázquez October 2001).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website www.xeno-canto.com - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.