White-headed Marsh Tyrant
Widespread in tropical South
America...perches on reeds or small
shrubs and sallies for flying insects.
Arundinicola leucocephala
(L 5.0" Wt 0.53 oz)
Sudama Woodlands
20Feb2018
Arundinicola means reed dweller;
leucocephala in Greek-Latin
means white head.
A seasoned birder can wake up to the
dawn chorus and tell within a hundred
miles or so where in the entire continent
she is likely to be.
(Lyanda Lynn Haupt)
© Curtis A
Marantz
Macaulay
Library