Yellow-rumped Marshbird Pseudoleistes guirahuro

Brazilian name: chopim-do-brejo

Yellow-rumped Marshbird, Aguas de São Pedro, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image Brazil

The Yellow-rumped Marshbird is dark brown (appearing black) with rump, shoulder and underparts bright yellow .

Yellow-rumped Marshbird, Aguas de São Pedro, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image They are found from south Goiás and Minas Gerais through south east Brazil to Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

As the name implies they are usually found close to water. They are loud and conspicuous normally occurring in flocks of about a dozen or so birds

Yellow-rumped Marshbird, Aguas de São Pedro, São Paulo, Brazil, December 2006 - click for larger image Photo 4 shows a fledgling which can only have been out of the nest for a few hours. It was finding it quite hard to fly and was being fed by an adult.

Fledgling Yellow-rumped Marshbird, Aguas de São Pedro, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2008 - click for larger image
Fledgling Yellow-rumped Marshbird, Serra da Canastra, Minas Gerais, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image
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