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CREAMY-BELLIED GNATCATCHER Polioptila lactea
ATLANTIC FOREST NEAR THREATENED
In the Atlantic Forest lives this charismatic gnatcatcher, a habitual inhabitant of canopy flocks. As the scores of birds flit through the canopy listen out for his distinctive nasal, buzzy call, not unlike that of his more widespread, dry-country relative the Masked Gnatcatcher.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE2951PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3882PH) Adult male ventral, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith May 2013).
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Polioptila lactea
1 (FPAVE2952RE) Song recorded Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Alberto Madroño August 1996).
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