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RUSSET-WINGED SPADEBILL Platyrinchus leucoryphus ATLANTIC FOREST VULNERABLE
This dull but distinctive little flycatcher is up there amongst the top targets for birders visiting Paraguay. As recently as 1995 it was known only from 10 specimens collected a long time previously and very little was known about its biology. The discovery of several populations around Paraguay in the 1990s enabled the species threat category to be downgraded to Vulnerable, but the species remains rare and has a very precise niche within the Atlantic Forest resulting in a local distribution.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE4198PH) Adult, PROCOSARA, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June 2016).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE4199PH) Same individual singing (Paul Smith June 2016).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE4200PH) Same individual (Paul Smith June 2016).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE4201PH) Same individual ventral (Paul Smith June 2016).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE615PH) Adult dorsal, Estancia Kanguery, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith November 2010).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE1952PH) Adult ventral, PROCOSARA, Departamento Itapúa (Alex Campbell December 2010).
FIGURE 7 - (FPAVE616PH) Adult dorsal, PN San Rafael, Departamento Itapúa (Alberto Madroño November 1996).
VIDEO - (FPAVE616VI) Adult, Estancia Kanguery, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith November 2010).
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Platyrinchus leucoryphus
1 (FPAVE617RE) Song  recorded Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Alberto Madroño June 1996).
2 (FPAVE618RE) Single song recorded Retiro Sapucai, Departamento Caaguazú (Myriam Velázquez November 2002).
3 (FPAVE619RE) Calls recorded Ocampos, PN San Rafael, Departamento Itapúa (Myriam Velázquez November 2002).
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