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SPECTACLED TYRANT Hymenops perspicillatus
Many strange birds inhabit the Paraguayan marshlands, but perhaps none are so strange as the Spectacled Tyrant. Breeding males (FPAVE3652PH - FPAVE3655PH)) are wholly black with eyecatching white wings and fleshy lobes around the eye - their spectacles! Females (FPAVE3657PH - FPAVE3658PH) are quite different, looking brown and streaky, but really impressing when they flit into the air to reveal their bright rufous wings. Spectacled Tyrants are unique, semi-terrestrial flycatchers with long legs. They are migrants, exhibiting a staggered migration pattern, with females (or female-plumaged birds) arriving in Paraguay several months before the males.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3652PH) Adult male, Cuenca Upper Yacaré Sur, Departamento Presidente Hayes (Paul Smith October 2012).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3653PH) Same male as (FPAVE3652PH) dorsal (Paul Smith October 2012).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE3654PH) Adult male, location unknown (Alberto Esquivel undated).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE3655PH) Adult male, location unknown (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE3656PH) Immature male?, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Arne Lesterhuis undated).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE3657PH) Female, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2005).
FIGURE 7 - (FPAVE3658PH) Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith August 2005).
VIDEO - (FPAVE3659VI) Same male as (FPAVE3652PH) dorsal (Paul Smith October 2012).
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