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RUFOUS-CAPPED ANTSHRIKE Thamnophilus ruficapillus
You can imagine our surprise when this fellow dropped into one of our nets in the southern city of Encarnación! It was the first record of this species in Paraguay for many years! It is of course likely that the bird is overlooked in southern Paraguay, Antshrikes are notoriously difficult to observe, but it appears to be replaced further north by the Barred Antshrike - a bird with a very similar song!
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE2707PH) Adult male, Kanguery, Departamento Itapúa (Hugo del Castillo July 2011).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE2708PH) Same individual singing (Hugo del Castillo July 2011).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE3987PH) Adult male, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2013).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE920PH) Adult male, Encarnación Fería Municipal, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith October 2005).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE921PH) Same individual upperwing (Paul Smith October 2005).
VIDEO - (FPAVE3988VI) Male singing, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2013).
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Thamnophilus ruficapillus
1 (FPAVE922RE) Song  recorded Ita Pyta, Departamento Caaguazú (Myriam Velázquez August 2001).
Click the link to hear the call. Longer versions of this call can be downloaded from the Paraguay page of our partner website Xeno-Canto - the largest collection of freely downloadable Neotropical bird calls available online.