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Photo by: ibera
Formosa, Argentina, August 2009

Alectrurus risora

[edit] Identification

20cm (30 cm including tail)
Male

• Black head, back and breast band
• White underparts
• Featherless throat which turns bright pinkish-red during the breeding season
• Elongated, black tail feathers
  

Female

• Upperparts brown streaked
• Pale breast band
• Narrow brown stripes at the end of the tail feathers.

[edit] Distribution

Locally in eastern Paraguay, southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Pastisales. Wet grasslands associated with marshes, and requires fairly tall grasses of between 1 and 1.5 metres for breeding.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes invertebrates.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. ArKive
3. BirdLife International
4. BF Member observations

• List of references

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