RUFOUS-CROWNED GREENLET Hylophilus poicilotis ATLANTIC FOREST
Skipping tit-like through the Atlantic forest canopy is the restless Rufous-crowned Greenlet. Actually a member of the Vireo family (Vireonidae) which will be familiar to North Americans, its active, acrobatic behaviour puts its more sluggish northern relatives to shame. The Greenlet is a perennial member of mixed species flocks, snapping up insects disturbed by the wave of birds that moves before them. Note the startling plumage resemblance between this species and the otherwise dissimilar and unrelated female Plain Antvireo.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE1932PH) Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Regis Nossent June 2005).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE1933PH) Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith June 2005).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE1934PH) Same individual head detail (Regis Nossent June 2005).
VIDEO - (FPAVE3892VI) Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith October 2011).
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Hylophilus poicilotis
1 (FPAVE1935RE) song recorded PROCSARA, PN San Rafael (Alberto Esquivel November 2006).
2 (FPAVE1936RE) song recorded DI Tore, PN San Rafael, Departamento Itapúa  (Myriam Velázquez July 2000).
3 (FPAVE1937RE) song recorded Ocampos, PN San Rafael, Departamento Itapúa  (Myriam Velázquez October 2001).
3 (FPAVE1938RE) alarm call recorded Yaguarete Forest, Departamento San Pedro  (Myriam Velázquez August 2000).
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