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Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil The Blue Dacnis is a small Tanager which is fairly widespread throughout tropical South America and parts of Central America. It is usually found in pairs or as part of a mixed species flock high in the canopy. |
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They feed on fruit and insects which they find on leaves . They are also sexually dimorphic as you can see from the forth and fifth photos of the female. There are illustrations in Isler, Plate 29; Hilty & Brown, Plate 48; Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 1, Plate 11; and Sick, Plate 40. |
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