Masked Water-tyrant Fluvicola nengeta

Brazilian name: lavadeira-mascarada
Masked Water-tyrant, REGUA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image Brazil

There are two populations of the Masked Water-tyrant separated by thousands of kilometres. One is in eastern Brazil from Maranhão to São Paulo and the other is on the Pacific coast of Ecuador and north-west Peru.

Masked Water-tyrant, Jaqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil, March 2004 - click for larger image It is mostly white with the "mask" being a black stripe through the eye and it has brownish-black wings and tail which has a broad white tip. The back is pale grey.

It is common in marshes and open scrubby areas near water and is sometimes found in gardens.
Masked Water-tyrant, Jaqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil, March 2004 - click for larger image There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 42; Sick, Page 476 and Ridgely & Greenfield, Plate 72.

There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto .
Masked Water-tyrant, Murici, Alagoas, Brazil, March 2004 - click for larger image
Masked Water-tyrant, Serra de Baturité, Ceará, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image
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