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WHITE-BELLIED SEEDEATER Sporophila leucoptera
The White-bellied is a big seedeater usually found near water. Singing males produce a strange, shrill call, quite unlike that of other seedeaters and immediately diagnostic. Unlike other Seedeaters, the White-bellied tends not to flock, being encountered alone or in pairs and occasionally loosely associating with mixed species aggregations.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3310PH) Adult male, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Roberto Derna November 2011).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3311PH) Adult male, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE3312PH) Same individual as (FPAVE3311PH) upperwing (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE3313PH) Adult female, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE3314PH) Immature male, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE3315PH) Same individual as (FPAVE3314PH) upperwing (Paul Smith September).
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