GREY-BELLIED SPINETAIL Synallaxis cinerascens
Spinetails are a group of essentially similar skulkers that produce simple, easily-learnt vocalisations, far more useful in identification than the subtle plumage differences. Grey-bellied is a humid forest species where it occurs alongside the quite different Rufous-capped Spinetail.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE629PH) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu July 2008).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE630PH) Adult singing, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu July 2008).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE631PH) Adult, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE632PH) Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith June).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE633PH) Same individual head detail (Regis Nossent June).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE634PH) Fledgling recently emerged from nest, Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2006).
VIDEO A - (FPAVE635VI) Adult, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith October 2010).
VIDEO B - (FPAVE636VI) Same individual as (FPAVE634PH)  (Paul Smith August 2006).
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Synallaxis cinerascens
1 (FPAVE637RE) Call recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
2 (FPAVE638RE) Contact call recorded Estancia Kanguery, Departamento Itapúa (Alberto Esquivel January 2007).
3 (FPAVE639RE) Variant call recorded Ocampos, PN San Rafael, Departamento Itapúa (Myriam Velázquez Smith March 2007).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website www.xeno-canto.com - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.
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