White-headed Marsh-tyrant Arundinicola
leucocephala Brazilian name: freirinha |
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Brazil A Tyrant Flycatcher, the male White-headed Marsh-tyrant is quite distinct in appearance. It is slightly crested, black with the entire head and upper chest white and with a yellow lower mandible. It has a chunky appearance and perches upright on vegetation above marshes and wetland such as the Pantanal. Compared to Fluvicola water-tyrants, it is rarely seen on the
ground and hardly ever spreads or cocks its tail.
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The female White-headed Marsh-tyrant has similar habits but looks very different and might be mistaken for a Black-backed Water-tyrant Fluvicola albiventer or a Pied Water-tyrant Fluvicola pica but it is more brownish above and less crispy white below. The third photo shows a female outside her nest. |
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It is one of the birds that is parasitised by the Shiny Cowbird Molothrus bonariensis There are illustrations in Hilty & Brown, Page 504; Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 42; and Sick, Page
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